Speech Recognition

Sep 21, 2014 20:48

(is geek)
I have been having fun with speech recognition on iOS. The thing that's changed since I last mucked about with speech recognition is that it appears to have acquired some fairly clever algorithms for working out what words make sense to put together. It's possible to see this real-time by watching the first guesses get replaced when you hit "Done". Businessy sentences work best because they're easiest to guess, so those of us writing fiction or anything like that are going to find more glitches, but it still works surprisingly well. (In the last sentence "find more" originally came out as "phone no", but I could see that replaced with a better guess without having to fiddle with it myself).

The most annoying detail I found so far is that on my Very Expensive Rectangle I can't seem to get "quote" and "unquote" to work properly despite some effort (I know, I know, #firstworldproblem).

My Portable Brain manages this perfectly, I think it's to do with the microphone placement, or having two microphones on an iPhone, but the little microphone button on the keyboard of the iPhone is harder to hit.

Incidentally, the Apple-specific terminology comes out suspiciously perfectly, mixed case and all.
(/is geek. Of course if I were a real geek, I would've played around with speech recognition on iOS 7 when it came in. Oops.)
(Sits back and waits for somebody, probably Jones, to comment).
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