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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