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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by mikestew on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:59PM (#24898330)
A big problem with the assistants is that as soon as they fail at a query they seem stupid, I feel stupid, and I stop using them for a long time.

Raise your hand if you remember the early days of Xbox "recognition", as you listen to other people in your party:

"Xbox, record. XBOX, RECORD. X...BOX, RE...CORD."

It's the reason that "oh, we can't sell an Xbox without a Kinect" Kinect went into the garage after a few months.

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by tjungblut on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:24PM (#24898627)
What I find even worse is when you play FIFA and some random non-related british commentary triggers the "xbox" speech command. Infuriating, especially since you can't turn it off.
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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by teddyh on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:01PM (#24899069)
And it can be used to troll people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anslUJ5SCIs

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Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m... by sleepybrett on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:49PM (#24900504)
Kinect, actually awesome tech, implementation on the xbox... not great. But the heart and soul of a ton of installation art pieces.

It's really too bad that MS went with a windows only sdk for the 2.0, the 1.0 being external tech had a multiplatform sdk.

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