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 btown on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:15PM (#24899227)

Something I'd love to see is a move towards "multiple possibilities" in voice-based UI/UX. Almost all these systems give weighted probabilities to different parses, and if you gave the human a choice between the top 3, you could be much more exploratory/risk-taking in choosing candidates. Or in machine translation or transcription, why do Google Translate and YouTube automatic captioning not communicate the system's level of comfort with what it gives you, and provide alternative possibilities if that is low?

We're humans - we can deal with ambiguity. Systems should trust that we'll respect them more if they tell us they're unsure, rather than either jumping to the wrong conclusion or simply being unwilling to guess!

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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 @09:56AM (#24907438)

Agreed, "recent photos" should get a response like "showing photos from the last day" and you can say "no, from the last month" and that then will be used to weight similar requests (about photos) in the future (weight mind you, not naively then make all requests for 'recent' by replaced by '1 month').

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