This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition

Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by recursive on Monday February 09, 2015 @05:43PM (#9024304)

I'm no valley expert, but it seems to me that uncanny valley refers to an artificial system intended to mimic a natural one. It mostly gets the mimicry right, but not enough that we are completely fooled. This freaks some people out.

Siri's UI intends to mimic a person that understands what you are saying. In practice, it gets it wrong in hilarious and frustrating ways, breaking the illusion.

So "uncanny valley" seems ok to me.

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Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by brianmcc on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:07AM (#9026467)

Is the term not about getting so close to real that it's that the remaining shortfall makes us uncomfortable?

E.g. something "50% real" is so far off, we psychologically dismiss it as a cartoon, drawing, whatever. It's not trying to compete with real.

Something "98% real" freaks us out though. Surprised I have not yet seen this link:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/avoiding-the-uncanny-valley-of-...

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