pippin wrote: > Oh, voice recognition actually works and it has indeed already worked > pretty well since the late 90s. Multi-speakers, dealing with accent, noisy environment, text-to-recognition was still a big challenge till very recently (and still is a bit) and there is nothing that irriates people more than having to repeat the same thing a few times to then realize that something else was recognized. > > The biggest issue is that you need a huge semantic database to compare > with if you want to analyze more complex phrases which used to be a > problem for mobile solutions but now that they all just send some > meta-analyzed voice (or in the case of echo even the raw recordings) > back to some server farm and do all the work there it's obviously more > feasible, especially since you no longer have to replicate that database > to all devices. > that's right ... > > The problem with VR is that it annoys everyone around you if you use it > and speech is also pretty slow for a lot of tasks, I think that's more > of a limitation than technology. > A bit, but it is also very true if you have to speak loud & slow - if you can use normal tune, then the annoying factor goes away a lot. Using voice as a UI can be slow in some cases, but there are many many simple tasks for where it is very convenient and where using any other sort of input system is slow & painful - a sort of sweet spot for VR > > And then... call me old fashioned, but I don't want to have the NSA run > their bots over every piece of sound generated in my home, recorded by > an array mike that even detects the faintest whisper in the most remote > corner... I understand that although I'm afraid anything we do is already scanned, unfortunately. I've given up hope on that
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