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Re:Android Is a Dead End by BenjiWiebe on Sunday July 16, 2017 @10:12PM (#14785205)
The year is 2017, and speech to text still isn't perfect.
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Re:Android Is a Dead End by hota_mazi on Sunday July 16, 2017 @10:17PM (#14785223)
And it will never be.

For English, and this kind of specific sentence, it's above 99%, though. Good enough for you?

What you are doing is called the Nirvana fallacy. Look it up, and stop doing it.

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Re:Android Is a Dead End by BenjiWiebe on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:50PM (#14843043)
I actually meant more the speed rather than the accuracy. At least on my phone, it takes a fair bit longer to listen to me and process my voice than to swipe in two words.
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