Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel
by cookiecaper on Thursday December 15, 2011 @07:20AM
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To be fair it's not like Google has never done anything with voice before and saw this Siri thing and panicked and rushed to put out an equivalent. Google has been working to improve voice recognition for years, and Android already has significant voice features built-in (speech-to-text text input, Voice Dialer, Voice Search). Google has been exploring this field for a long time.
It's not crazy to package things in a way that's comparable to your competitors.
Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel
by Torn on Thursday December 15, 2011 @07:52AM
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Don't forget google is sitting on probably the world's largest repository of video it can datamine and train speech on.
Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel
by jgw on Thursday December 15, 2011 @08:59AM
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That raises an interesting question. Does voice recognition need to be tailored to the type of lossy encoding used? Since perceptual encoders are designed to capture what the human ear thinks it hears, rather than what the sound wave actually looks like, does an algorithm trained on one perceptual encoder apply well to material encoded with another?
I totally disagree. The worst thing Google could do is quickly develop a copy-cat.
Google should slowly and carefully evaluate whether they need a Siri rival and then create something that their customers will use that enhances their core services.