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Same with voice to text translation. It's absolutely, utterly, worthless. I end up having to go and edit half the message. Apple can't even get basic things rig

by pentae 3y ago

Same with voice to text translation. It's absolutely, utterly, worthless. I end up having to go and edit half the message. Apple can't even get basic things right

kaba0 3y ago
With ios 17 it also greatly improved (at least the input, mechanism itself).
jamiedumont 3y ago
I broke my right (dominant) collarbone on Wednesday so I’ve entered the realm of the temporarily disabled user. So far I prefer iOS because the predictive text above the keyboard (in iOS 16 too) and in particular the speech to text feature has been so good! The only egregious error that I have encountered has been confusion around the phrase “into” when I mean “in two”. An understandable mistake.
- messe 3y ago
  Out of curiosity, what accent do you have? In my experience that can have a significant impact on how good speed to text works for you.
  - jamiedumont 3y ago
    Fairly neutral British. Born and raised in Guernsey so have a complete absence of regional accent without the very forced enunciation that comes from elocution lessons / Queens English. Admittedly I probably represent the best-case subject.
    - messe 3y ago
      > Admittedly I probably represent the best-case subject. I don't think you could do any better unless you were from Cupertino. With an Irish accent, my experience has been... okay with Apples text to speech, it's certainly better than others, but I still have to make a conscious effort to enunciate quite differently to my normal speech. OpenAI's whisper has really impressed me though, and transcribes almost everything perfectly, even if I throw in phrases or words from other languages part way through the conversation.
criddell 3y ago
I use voice to text all the time on my iPhone and find it to be astonishingly good. I’m a 50 year old man who grew up in Southwestern Ontario so that gives you an idea of my accent.

by pentae 3y ago

Same with voice to text translation. It's absolutely, utterly, worthless. I end up having to go and edit half the message. Apple can't even get basic things right

kaba0 3y ago

With ios 17 it also greatly improved (at least the input, mechanism itself).

jamiedumont 3y ago

I broke my right (dominant) collarbone on Wednesday so I’ve entered the realm of the temporarily disabled user. So far I prefer iOS because the predictive text above the keyboard (in iOS 16 too) and in particular the speech to text feature has been so good! The only egregious error that I have encountered has been confusion around the phrase “into” when I mean “in two”. An understandable mistake.

messe 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what accent do you have? In my experience that can have a significant impact on how good speed to text works for you.
- jamiedumont 3y ago
  Fairly neutral British. Born and raised in Guernsey so have a complete absence of regional accent without the very forced enunciation that comes from elocution lessons / Queens English. Admittedly I probably represent the best-case subject.
  - messe 3y ago
    > Admittedly I probably represent the best-case subject. I don't think you could do any better unless you were from Cupertino. With an Irish accent, my experience has been... okay with Apples text to speech, it's certainly better than others, but I still have to make a conscious effort to enunciate quite differently to my normal speech. OpenAI's whisper has really impressed me though, and transcribes almost everything perfectly, even if I throw in phrases or words from other languages part way through the conversation.

criddell 3y ago

I use voice to text all the time on my iPhone and find it to be astonishingly good. I’m a 50 year old man who grew up in Southwestern Ontario so that gives you an idea of my accent.