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On blind faith alone, I have to imagine this will be improved significantly going forward. I use Google's voice recognition algorithms/systems on my Android ph
by encoderer 15y ago
On blind faith alone, I have to imagine this will be improved significantly going forward.
I use Google's voice recognition algorithms/systems on my Android phone all the time. Every day. Often to dictate complete SMS and Emails, while I'm driving, via my car's AD2P bluetooth mic, with all the ambient noise/etc present in a car on the interstate. (Though to be fair it's not an aftermarket bluetooth solution and I'm sure the mic is high quality and well placed.)
It is very good. The most common type of mistake -- and still rare at that -- is stuff like "let's not go until..." is transcribed as "let's not going tell" and stuff like that.
When I first started using the voice features when I got the phone (HTC Evo), i was blown away at the quality of the results.
And of course, Google has been practicing this stuff for a very long time. Everybody knows about Goog-411 (which was heaven before I got a smartphone) but does anybody else remember the little gimmick Google Labs page where you can click on the page, then call the number it displays for you, speak your query into the phone, and then right before your eyes your page reloads with your query and results.
That was at least nine years ago.