25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer

Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by coldcode on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:31PM (#24897956)

I use my voice assistant on my phone to set timers.

That's it.

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by bserge on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:51PM (#24898224)

The other day, I wanted it to open an app and start recording when I say "Hey Google, take a voice note"... but no dice :/

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by martyvis on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:53PM (#24900551)

Just say "Hey Google, open Live Transcribe" (assuming you had that app installed)

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:47AM (#24907361)

This highlights part of the problem. Google sell/advertise products for companies but people want to use tools.

People want "[wake word], [action] [modifiers]".

Companies want "[trademark product] [trademark product] [modifiers]" (eg the parents example "Hey Google (RTM), Live Transcribe (RTM) 'words to transcribe'").

I've only used Alexa (and only for fun) but the replacement of verbs with companies/products, and of nouns with proper nouns, is really annoying to me and gets in the way IMO.

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by maneesh on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:40PM (#24898099)

Weather is also useful! Sometimes reminders, which are basically timers. But yea that's it.

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by GloriousKoji on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:34PM (#24898744)

Siri doesn't get the weather right.

"What's the weather in Yosemite" and "Yosemite weather" can get you two drastically different results. As of right now (10/26/2020 10:35 AM) the two results I get are 43F and 32F.

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by maneesh on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:56PM (#24903796)

Siri is always mistaken. Alexa is pretty good.

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:53AM (#24907414)

Alexa is super easy to make a skill for (IIRC it's one XML/JSON file hosted somewhere and registered with Amazon). So you could probably make your own with ~IFTTT to scrape the data. Alexa has "daily briefing" which will then go through a list of skills which can include your own [public] skills.

I made an "and finally ..." to add funny news to the end of the daily briefing and was super impressed how easy it was.

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