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Re:Amazon and Google fight crucial battle over voice recogni... by amelius on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:36AM (#13461214)
Voice is just an input device like a keyboard is.

Why do we see companies fighting over this technology, but didn't we see those fights back in the days when the keyboard was invented?

Also, why is open-source lacking behind? Surely there's plenty of free training data available, so that can't be the reason.

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Re:Amazon and Google fight crucial battle over voice recogni... by ragebol on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:08AM (#13461592)
Because this stuff is very compute-intensive and that is simply expensive.

Also, I don't think there is as much free training data publicly available as Google or Amazon have gathered privately.

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Re:Amazon and Google fight crucial battle over voice recogni... by amelius on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:52AM (#13462989)
> Voice is just an input device like a keyboard is.

Also, how would people feel if their keyboard would need to connect to Google or Amazon in order to operate?

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