With recent rumors of Google coming out with its own phone, and that
phone having a somehow dramatically different version of Android, what
do you think of the possibility that the dramatic difference involves
a dramatic increase in the use of speech recognition?
Mark
On Nov 23, 12:28 pm, abnormative <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow, that guy raises some intriguing issues about speech recognition!
> (Just kidding, I was that guy.)
>
> Come on, somebody must know something about where Android's speech
> support is headed?
>
> On Nov 13, 5:40 pm, Mark Abbott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Android used to have a Java package named android.speech.recognition
> > with classes for full-on grammar-basedspeechrecognition(http://
> > lampwww.epfl.ch/~linuxsoft/android/android-m3-rc37a/docs/reference/
> > android/speech/recognition/package-summary.html). That package
> > disappeared from the codebase without announcement in early 2008
> > (http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/03/25/does-android-still-listen).
> > There has been a puzzling absence of public comment ever since.
>
> > Would anyone be willing to explain what happened?
>
> > Current Androidspeechrecognitionsupport does not include grammar-
> > basedspeechrecognition, only what is known as "dictation" or "speech-
> > to-text." That's not adequate for navigating through a user interface
> > usingspeech-- which would be very useful for tiny-keyboard, tiny-
> > screen devices.
>
> > What are the prospects for adding grammar-basedspeechrecognitionto
> > Android?
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