Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month

Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by tcoppi on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:27AM (#12312700)

Have you used Google Voice in the past ~year? I have a standard american accent so I might be the best case scenario for it but I haven't seen it miss a word I've said anytime I can remember in a year or two. I mostly use it in the car to reply and send texts, works even with the radio and ventilation on. I've used an Amazon Echo and that is right 99% of the time too.

Now, interpreting the words I say is a different matter, but as far as transcription I'd say we are at basically 100% right now and have been for a while.

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Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by fucking_tragedy on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:06PM (#12315431)

> Now, interpreting the words I say is a different matter, but as far as transcription I'd say we are at basically 100% right now and have been for a while.

What? Sometimes I use Google's speech to text and a majority of the time it's a waste of my time. "Food near me" is not "fool's errand" (the irony isn't lost on me) and "gyms nearby" is not "Jim Dougherty", both are search terms I used last night.

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Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by tcoppi on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:59PM (#12317341)

shrug I don't have these issues at all. I just tried "food near me" and it worked perfectly fine. Like I said I might be the best case scenario since I speak in a basically standard american broadcast english accent.

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Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by gambiting on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:07AM (#12313032)

Well, the thing is, English is not the only language in the world. Google's voice recognition in my native language, Polish, is absolutely abysmal.

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Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by tcoppi on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:42AM (#12313357)

I feel like that is more a product of the fact that the effort put into most other languages is greatly lower at this point relative to English, rather than English is particularly easy or other languages are particularly hard. It will all come in time.

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Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by Nadya on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:29PM (#12315641)

Not effort - but data. A large amount of the dictation learning was done through users using and correcting the software. If you have 40,000,000 English users but only 80,000 Polish users you can immediately see why the software may not be up to par.

Google Voice to Text, from my experiences, is bloody amazing for Chinese. My Chinese is abysmal (think "never gets the tone right") and for short phrases/sentences I've never had Google fail on me. Maybe it fails on larger sentences but it would be difficult for me to believe.

Japanese is another language it does very well in. I can only count on one hand how many times it has made a mistake - and usually repeating myself a tad slower and with less slurring and it will pick it up just fine.

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Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by msh on Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:03AM (#12325544)

Well, my language (Danish) is pretty small and I would say Google voice recognition is notably worse than English. Sometimes it's way of pronouncing names is a bit weird but it is recognized when I said them.

So it might not work for everyone in the world but at some point soon it will properly be there for most national languages.

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