HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome)

Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by Herring on Sunday December 05, 2010 @06:24PM (#1973088)

I thought speech recognition was still very inaccurate & hasn't improved much in the last 5-10 years. Has it suddenly become usable?

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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by rbarooah on Sunday December 05, 2010 @06:48PM (#1973155)

Not for me in this case. Every sentence I tried was mangled in the traditional way:

Once upon a time in america -> ants on a time in america

The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. -> the owl and pussycat when to see in a beautiful p cream

Google is not evil -> google is evil

I'm not joking about that last one.

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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by cypherdog on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:23PM (#1973399)

I tried your sentence "The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat" and got "seattle hookers gatwick to see a beautiful pizza ri boat". You win.

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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by rbarooah on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:42PM (#1973458)

Actually I think you win!

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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by reddot on Monday December 06, 2010 @11:02AM (#1975556)

Speech recognition has steadily improved over the past 10 years. You can see a few examples: Android system wide speech input, Siri iPhone app (which Apple bought), Dragon Naturally Speaking advertises upwards of 99% accuracy for general purpose dictation, and the latest speech recognition IVRs do pretty darn well; try calling Amtrak or United. If you try to dick around with it, have a strong accent, or are in a noisy environment, you won't get (as) good results. However, as a whole, it's greatly improved.

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