Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls...
by drdaeman on Sunday August 11, 2019 @08:52PM
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> For the rest of the population of this planet, voice controls are horrible
Please count me out. I'm a non-native English speaker, with a strong accent, and I'd absolutely prefer voice control over having to:
1) Remove my right hand from the steering wheel, reaching forward where the controls are. There is a good reason all important controls (besides pedals) are on the steering column.
2) Either a) moving my eyes away from the road for a moment, looking for the knob; or b) trying to find the exact controls by touch and memory.
> an infuriating experience to try to make the bloody machine correctly interpret what you're saying
Machines are limited - and despite marketers wanting us to believe otherwise, I don't expect them to display comprehension natural human languages better than my cat does. Like I query search engines with keywords and special syntax, and not proper sentences, I expect to communicate with the machine in a special, non-natural language.
Restricted speech recognition with strict grammar and limited vocabulary works quite OK those days. It's the general-purpose voice recognition and "smart" assistants are things that suck hard.
Heck, maybe I'm a total weirdo, but I'd rather learn a special conlang than reach for AC controls by touch.
Please count me out. I'm a non-native English speaker, with a strong accent, and I'd absolutely prefer voice control over having to:
1) Remove my right hand from the steering wheel, reaching forward where the controls are. There is a good reason all important controls (besides pedals) are on the steering column. 2) Either a) moving my eyes away from the road for a moment, looking for the knob; or b) trying to find the exact controls by touch and memory.
> an infuriating experience to try to make the bloody machine correctly interpret what you're saying
Machines are limited - and despite marketers wanting us to believe otherwise, I don't expect them to display comprehension natural human languages better than my cat does. Like I query search engines with keywords and special syntax, and not proper sentences, I expect to communicate with the machine in a special, non-natural language.
Restricted speech recognition with strict grammar and limited vocabulary works quite OK those days. It's the general-purpose voice recognition and "smart" assistants are things that suck hard.
Heck, maybe I'm a total weirdo, but I'd rather learn a special conlang than reach for AC controls by touch.