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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Speech recognition faster than texting on phone keypad
This is an interesting test as it shows speech recognition can be fast and secure enough to be useful for converting speech to text messages.
In this test the speech recognition software was running on a high power PC, so a similar solution running on a phone would need to be squeezed to fit in the available memory and also the CPU power is way lower on a phone. Also, mobile phones are normally used in noisy environments, which also would lower the score for speech recognition.
Nuance provided the speech recognition solution for the test, and my understanding is that it's actually running centrally rather than on the phone, so in a thought "voice-SMS" scenario you would call the service and speak the message that would then be converted into a real SMS. I wonder how one gets a confirmation that it actually understood the message correctly. By speaking the converted message back?
Computer beats fastest text messenger - Yahoo! News
In this test the speech recognition software was running on a high power PC, so a similar solution running on a phone would need to be squeezed to fit in the available memory and also the CPU power is way lower on a phone. Also, mobile phones are normally used in noisy environments, which also would lower the score for speech recognition.
Nuance provided the speech recognition solution for the test, and my understanding is that it's actually running centrally rather than on the phone, so in a thought "voice-SMS" scenario you would call the service and speak the message that would then be converted into a real SMS. I wonder how one gets a confirmation that it actually understood the message correctly. By speaking the converted message back?
Computer beats fastest text messenger - Yahoo! News
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but when you are texting you dont want people the see what you are saying so if you used voice regonition everyone wud know what u r saying so its not private and so wouldn't be popular
You are absolutely right. Didn't think about that.
And surrounding people would be even more annoyed and confused when people talk to their phones and there's not even a human being on the other side :).
And surrounding people would be even more annoyed and confused when people talk to their phones and there's not even a human being on the other side :).
It wouldn't actually matter much how accurate the recognition is. I spent quite a bit of time looking at dictation (worked for IBM ViaVoice), and "speakos" are fairly easy to read through, even at 1998 levels of accuracy. With 2006 accuracy levels, combined with the informal nature of SMS, there wouldn't be a big problem.
Oh - and speech will never 100% replace keypad for SMS entry for the very reasons listed above. However, we idiot Americans have commutes in the 30 minutes to 2 hours range, almost all in the car.
Oh - and speech will never 100% replace keypad for SMS entry for the very reasons listed above. However, we idiot Americans have commutes in the 30 minutes to 2 hours range, almost all in the car.
As you commute so much, an autonomously speaking RSS/SMS/email reader would make sense. I haven't seen that fully integrated in a phone so that it would report whenever new information arrives. It's a potential traffic hazard though.
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