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>Furthermore, Amazon hasn’t cracked the code on hyper-efficient GB into KB lossless compression only to squirrel it away only for use in voice assistants. They
by asfginino 6y ago
>Furthermore, Amazon hasn’t cracked the code on hyper-efficient GB into KB lossless compression only to squirrel it away only for use in voice assistants.
They could do speech recognition on the device and then ship off the plain text. I don't think they do this, but it is most certainly within their technical ability.
As a practical example, I have a copy of a 458,045 word audiobook on my computer and I just downloaded a copy of the e-book. The audiobook is just over 1 GiB, while the plain text of the e-book compressed with bz2 comes in at 800 KiB.
- zachm0 6y agoSmall knit pick, but speech to text isn’t lossless. How someone says the words has a lot of impact on the meaning of those words. It’s possible Amazon doesn’t care about that lost information but that is a completely different conversation.
- asfginino 6y agoThat's true. Speech to text also isn't entirely accurate, which loses some information. Even when they actually do ship audio off the device for processing, I'd be surprised if it's done losslessly.
- scollet 6y agoFor anyone curious about this, I highly recommend developing on CMU Sphinx for a weekend project. It will really paint some pictures about machine interpretation based on training data and the actual application code.
- lotu 6y ago> They could do speech recognition on the device and then ship off the plain text Not with the tiny cheap CPUs that are one these devices they couldn't. Or at least not very effective speech recognition.
- MiroF 6y agoI think you overestimate how CPU intensive the inference is.