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Re:Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer by tokenizerrr on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:08PM (#14101773)
Freely available speech to text is garbage compared to what the big players are doing. Additionally their activation words usually trigger a special microcontroller extensively trained to listen for such a phrase, and then the more expensive processing kicks in.
Re:Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:57PM (#14102128)
Garbage that could do the job well enough in like 80% of cases a decade ago. And still, off-line garbage is better than third-party cloud wonder.
Re:Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer by jlarocco on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:16PM (#14101833)
And it will stay that way without more people working on the freely available stuff...
Re:Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer by ashark on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:55PM (#14102513)
The free spy-economy option weakens or kills privacy-respecting community and commercial options yet again. This won't stop until this crap is illegal.