Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine

Re:Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine by ben_w on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:05PM (#31673255)

I’ve only used Alexa in stand-alone units, and Siri on my phone and watch. For me, Alexa regularly fails, and the overwhelming majority of my interaction attempts play out like this:

Me: Alexa, Badezimmer 10%

Alexa: Ich kann nicht Prozent auf Spotify finden

*Five attempts later, it actually works*

(It was even less reliable in English)

Siri mostly hears the right words when I ask questions, and the voice keyboard (is that the same speech-to-text engine?) is correct somewhat more often than the swipe keyboard (although that doesn’t say very much as the latter seems to have become very confused as a result of me learning German).

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Re:Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine by danhau on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:36PM (#31674625)

I‘ve had Siri set to German for forever (my native language). It regularly has problems recognizing me saying things in English mid-sentence, like when I request it to play a song. I do this a lot (car commuter).

For fun, I set Siri to English for a day and I was blown away at how much better it is. Both in recognizing requests, despite my accent, and in the quality of the voice synthesizer. Song requests became trivial and everything felt much more fluent. English Siri is even able to express emotions (happiness), which is something I’ve never heard in the German version.

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