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> Text-to-speech in more languages, including Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish > On-device keyboard dictation that performs all processing completely of
by dreamcompiler 5y ago
> Text-to-speech in more languages, including Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish
> On-device keyboard dictation that performs all processing completely offline
> Unlimited keyboard dictation (previously limited to 60 seconds per instance)
>> It’s because Intel Macs don’t have the neural engine these features require.
This is of course utter horseshit. Text-to-speech might be slightly easier with a "neural engine" but the fact that it can be done just fine in other languages without a "neural engine" belies this statement.
Dragon Systems (among others) was doing completely offline speech-to-text dictation on Macs that were 1000x less powerful than today's Macs 20 years ago, and doing it well. If Apple doesn't know how to do it today, that says a lot more about the competence of Apple's programmers than about their hardware.
- Synaesthesia 5y agoYes they had text to speech, but not as good as today, not nearly as robust, you had to train it. Google do also have on device speech transcription, for their own phones with neural engines. Their blog post points out that it's quite a resource intensive method of doing things. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-speech.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...
- zepto 5y ago> Dragon Systems (among others) was doing completely offline speech-to-text dictation on Macs that were 1000x less powerful than today's Macs 20 years ago, and doing it well. Not even close to modern standards.
- musicale 5y ago"Hello, I am Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag!"