Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
by pie420 on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:17PM
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No, the real challenge now is how do you minimize the amount of processing power needed, or bandwidth needed, and how do you do all this while minimizing translation time to under 0.5 seconds.
Obviously accents and irregularities are also areas I'm sure they are focusing on, but I imagine that optimizing for real time, mobile and low CPU power devices is a huge focus for them.
Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
by geenew on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:23PM
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They ran dragon on contemporary computers, and that was very good at least 10 years ago, probably more. So they have voice recognition working well on what would now be considered very constrained hardware.
Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
by tootie on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:12AM
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I had an early version of Dragon on Tandy running Windows 3.1. And it was pretty usable. Not just dictation it could imitate mouse clicks when you said stuff like "maximize window".
Obviously accents and irregularities are also areas I'm sure they are focusing on, but I imagine that optimizing for real time, mobile and low CPU power devices is a huge focus for them.