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Is this a recent experience? I've found the voice search to be incredibly proficient recently. It's slightly embarrassing, but I use it for search and text dict
by psbp 11y ago
Is this a recent experience? I've found the voice search to be incredibly proficient recently. It's slightly embarrassing, but I use it for search and text dictation almost constantly.
- kybernetyk 11y agoI'm running a "bi lingual" phone. OS language is set to English (because I like my computing to be in English) and because of locality I also added German to the voice recognition. Sometimes Google thinks I'm speaking German when really I'm speaking English and vice versa (especially searching for English named products with a German phrase). It can get really annoying sometimes. But I guess it's mostly my fault for falling out of the default modus operandi. :)
- baldfat 11y agoMy wife uses speech input almost exclusively. She says that it is the most accurate way to text due to auto correct and simple typing errors that than need to be corrected or send a second corrected text. She hates most technology and just likes her old and tried ways and it has shocked me how much she picked up voice search and texting.
- sanoli 11y agowhat phone does she have? I gave up on voice recognition a decade ago because I realized the thing has to work as good as an average person's ear/understanding capacity or it just stinks to use. So I said, I'll give it a decade or more. I still thought it was not there, since I never see people use Siri. Maybe I'm wrong?
- EarthLaunch 11y agoI'd say it's close enough to being there, that it's there. I get about 95% accuracy, and the 5% is overcome by how much faster it is than poking fake keys. This only applies to generic language. Unusual phrasings, niche words, or proper nouns come out wrong. This make speech perfect for quick texting, but still unusable for real writing.
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- unoti 11y agoTry using voice on any Android phone. Look for a little microphone icon wherever the virtual keyboard is up, and try a few things out for yourself, such as dictating an SMS message. It's come a long way in the last 4 years. It's come a very, very long way in the last 10 years.
- baldfat 11y agoSamsung Note 3. Also Siri is not as good as the Android voice.
- sanoli 11y agoDidn't know that. Thanks. I'll check out this model, or a newer one. Still using a flip phone but it's about time, since pretty much everyone now talks through whatsapp in my country.
- smrtinsert 11y agoIt has become my main source of search entry to be honest.