Google in, Google out

Re:Google in, Google out by TeMPOraL on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:16PM (#14396168)

I built an off-line voice recognition system 10 years ago using Microsoft Speech API and I guarantee you it worked quite well. There's nothing in base voice recognition that would require uploading everything to the cloud. You only have to be willing to read out some text for few minutes, once, to train the model.

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Re:Google in, Google out by euyyn on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:33PM (#14397422)

> You only have to be willing to read out some text for few minutes, once, to train the model.

I guess that's what kills it as practical in the real world.

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Re:Google in, Google out by TeMPOraL on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:37AM (#14398829)

Laziness is competitive advantage. There are costs to it though - in this case, we pay for it with our data. Small bits of our souls, if you will.

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Re:Google in, Google out by fixermark on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:57PM (#14402893)

I don't expect these technologies to appeal to people who think of the data their behavior generates as "small bits of their souls."

For everyone else though, there are some neat families of features in all the major tech stacks.

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