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Personally, I read it more as Google _applied_ -- developed useful software -- speech-recognition technology that works. I can recall testing countless software
by thezilch 16y ago
Personally, I read it more as Google _applied_ -- developed useful software -- speech-recognition technology that works. I can recall testing countless softwares like Dragon Talk (mentioned in the article) for assisting my writing of school papers, to no avail. These softwares were sluggish and woefully inaccurate -- this may no longer be the case, as I haven't given them a second chance since.
I don't think the article disparages past and present work from the NLP community, but you have to expect Google to catch the limelight for the application of such technology. I don't really see anyone else attempting what Google is attempting at scale.
Why wouldn't Google be praised (or an "owner") for being a generous benefactor to a community? Would you not consider research at Googleplex (or any of the 100s of satellite campuses) to be Google's?
- orijing 16y agoOh yeah, I agree that Google should be praised for taking research and producing useful applications. I am not disparaging Google in the least. I respect them for bringing NLP to the masses. I meant to dispel the myth that Google invented speech recognition, or that it developed it. The reality is that it is as much of a developer as anyone else in the NLP community.