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The first Xbox One could control most hardware using the Kinect and simple commands like "Xbox On". The ability to understand language locally has been availabl
by blackflame7000 7y ago
The first Xbox One could control most hardware using the Kinect and simple commands like "Xbox On". The ability to understand language locally has been available since at least 1997 with the Dragon Dictate. The only real reason it's sent remotely is to learn from the data gathered.
- Ajedi32 7y agoYes, we've had really crappy implementations of voice recognition for decades now. Doing voice recognition _well_ has been a somewhat more recent development (depending on who you ask it's still not good enough), and until very recently, most of the more accurate systems have either required extensive calibration to learn your voice, or been run exclusively server-side. The reason it's done remotely is because that's the easiest way to get accurate results; it's not some grand conspiracy.
- blackflame7000 7y agoI think the biggest improvement is the ability to understand the context of a sentence instead of just listening for keywords. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy because there's just so much data and lot of it probably isn't even useful. However, the recordings are definitely used to improve the ability to recognize the way different people say the same word for the purpose of improving recognition in the future.