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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by windlep on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:32PM (#12739320)
I'll admit I'm not very interested in speech recognition of this nature when it can't disambiguate the speaker. ie. the way Amazon Echo and other voice recognition systems can't tell the difference between a human in the room and the TV. Even when one might be clearly a female voice vs. a male.

None of the voice recognition systems on the market learn my voice distinctly from my wife's or sons, and I don't want their speech triggering things on accident (especially my son's), so I don't use any of them.

I'll be more impressed when I can restrict Amazon Echo or one of these assistants to ignoring any voice that isn't at least rather similar to my own, not merely recognizing the words I'm speaking.

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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by ankitbko on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:27AM (#12743130)
Well they do have speaker identification. But I don't know how good it is. You may try them out. https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/speaker-r... They also are having a private preview of CRIS which supports custom acoustic models https://www.cris.ai/
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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by gusmd on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:07PM (#12739843)
for what it's worth, the "OK Google" functionality in my Android phone is trained against my voice and does a pretty good job at rejecting my wife's and coworkers commands.
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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by sean2 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:58PM (#12747165)
For what it's worth, even after some training none of the phones in my office seem to pick up their owner's voice rather than someone else telling their own phone to run a search (we're all mid 30s male).

My phone rarely listens to me until I hold down the home button but one guy I know, who has a slow, deep voice, triggers Google to start listening in normal conversation all the time.

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