Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices

Re:Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin ... by drzaiusapelord on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:12PM (#12401519)

I'm getting comfortable with talking to my watch. Its pretty discreet if you do it correctly. The mics on these things are very sensitive, so you don't have to yell. In fact, whispering works just fine. The problem is that no one tells people this and as we have seen from the popularity of Siri and other tech that people just automatically start yelling commands like they're using a computer from a 1950s sci-fi movie.

Even in places with loud background noise, its a non-issue considering everything nowadays has two mics for noise reduction. I'm very, very surprised at how well Google voice-to-speech works. When it fails its almost always because I have a poor signal from t-mobile or am saying something that's just too difficult for machines to parse correctly.

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Re:Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin ... by TheOneTrueKyle on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:29PM (#12401640)

This has been my problem with talking to the watch or phone. It is usually the internet in the area that is the problem.

Also, one thing that is relatively hard for voice recognition to distinguish is varying between two different languages. I am always cooking and words like, dashi, kombu, and gnocchi are hard to parse. There are uses of words from other languages that don't involve saying "translate x in English"

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Re:Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin ... by oaktowner on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:45PM (#12401736)

By far my favorite thing about my smart watch is the ability to dictate texts.

I find, like some commentors above, that for longer-form composition, I often want to skip around. But for a text-length message the time to compose is drastically reduced by dictating it to my wrist rather than removing phone, unlocking phone, typing reply, etc. And it can be done largely hands-free.

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