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But that assumes that the speech recognition is perfect. Which at least for those of us speaking non-US English is never the case. And you have only to ring y
by threeseed 2y ago
But that assumes that the speech recognition is perfect.
Which at least for those of us speaking non-US English is never the case.
And you have only to ring your bank and try and transfer money between accounts with it reading out every account number and asking for confirmation every step of the way. Versus a few clicks with a mouse to see that for almost all operational tasks voice is cumbersome and inefficient.
- danielbln 2y agoWhisper is incredibly robust, with a vast amount of language. I use it in German as well as English and it's incredibly reliable. Modern, transformer based ASR is a different ballgame.
- threeseed 2y agoIt needs to be perfect. Every single time. Because voice interfaces don't have the equivalent of a delete key or allowing the user to quickly select a different option.
- soco 2y agoTime for the mandatory mention of the Scottish voice recognition elevator sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuFcIRlwdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuFcIRlwdc