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I just tried it, and it's much faster than Siri. I wish I could have it replace Siri, but alas, iOS would never allow that. I much prefer the Google Now style v
by timothya 14y ago
I just tried it, and it's much faster than Siri. I wish I could have it replace Siri, but alas, iOS would never allow that. I much prefer the Google Now style voice over's Siri's as well.
Google originally announced this app back in August, and said it'd be in the App Store "shortly"... It's pretty obvious why Apple held this back in the approval process since it definitely competes with Siri's functionality.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoJellybean adds offline speech recognition (which is at least partly responsible for Now being wicked fast); there's no mention but wouldn't be surprised if they ported it to iOS for this app.
- timothya 14y agoIt doesn't seem to work offline. It's different than Google Now on Android, as the results are just the Google search results for the query. But when the Google Knowledge Graph provides an actual answer, it puts that up top and reads it out.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoThat's exactly how search in Now works on Android. Search obviously can't work offline, but that doesn't mean the recognition isn't running offline.
- StavrosK 14y agoIt's not. Say "listen to muse", it doesn't work without a net connection. Only "call X" works.
- baddox 14y agoThe voice recognition is shockingly fast. It's printing words on screen as I'm saying the next word. Any idea if that's being done client side?
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- Geee 14y agoI would love to know the details here. What I'm suspecting is that Google has figured out a way to combine both client- and server-side processing for both maximal responsiveness and accuracy. Maybe there's even some Google Instant magic going on, so it'll basically predict what you are going to say and pre-fetch something based on that. I don't know much about voice recognition, but I guess it would speed up the client-side algorithm if it has knowledge that your next word is probably going to be either banana or apple.
- drpancake 14y agoI distinctly remember Google talking about them having achieved client-side voice recognition at the last I/O, but I can't find anything about it now.
- pkulak 14y agoThey did, but I think performance is degraded when there's no connection. When there is a connection, it's some kind of crazy hybrid approach.