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 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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