Super impressive. My wife just spoke full-speed Vietnamese into a Google Doc, 100% correct, even the tone marks.
Works pretty well with Hindi, too, neat!
Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
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#22Tried with Romanian, got a bunch of random words .. about 50% right, the resulting text is totally unintelligible.
I was expecting a lot more accuracy.. Apple's built-in dictation does way better than this.
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#23Google Now has been used as voice reminder keeper by me for a long time! There are cases where it can still miss by a large margin, but general usability has greatly improved over past 2 years. I would love to see that this thing become smarter, that it can detect you are saying a list of things then format them automatically. That well be truly AMAZING!
I am sure that the team who owns voice recog at G is working on it.
I wonder organizationally if it's structured that way, but I digress...
This particular integration is really impressive after some cursory testing.
If I were CTO at, say, Dragon... I would be having a sleepless night.
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#24Its pretty impressive. I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking.
It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training.
But I did say pretty close. Not exactly right. And I'm only speaking a few sentences.
I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right (but getting some remarkably difficult words/names correct), the thing that struck me is how written word, and the art form of such, is in fact quite different from a verbal stream of spoken words. The little sigils and breaking up of a written text conveys a whole bunch of meaning and subtlety that a word for word stream doesn't quite get.
For me, its just inaccurate enough to still be irritating. Everything's working fine, and then I hit a mis-dictated word, have to do a bit of a double take and ask myself "What the...what on earth does it think i'm trying to say here...oh...i said THAT!" which breaks the flow of anything but the most basic and primitive sentence.
But then that makes me wonder, you know what... how many humans can actually follow everything I'm actually saying? It's not like I can peer into their heads and verify the transcription of voice-to-words inscribed on their brains.
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#25They have my emails, they have my documents, they have my pictures, they have my location, they have my browsing history, and now they can have my voice.
Only lacks DNA, fingerprints, retina footprint and non-verbal communication.
Oh wait, it's only a matter of time.
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#26Its pretty impressive. I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training. But I did say pretty close. Not exactly right. And I'm only speaking a few sentences. I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right…
Humans don't follow what you say :)
On this topic I have never managed to get my typing above 60 women because this is as about as fast as I can think ahead writing.
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#27Seriously folks, this is awesome. Does anyone have a recommendation of a USB microphone/headset that will work with Ubuntu so that I can start using this a bit more comfortably? I did not know voice typing was possible before, this has made my day. All I need now is to invest in a decent microphone!
Microsoft lx 3000 is unidirectional and has noise cancelling and is cheap. Caveat : I haven't tried it with Ubuntu.
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#28Its pretty impressive. I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training. But I did say pretty close. Not exactly right. And I'm only speaking a few sentences. I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right…
Humans don't follow what you say :) On this topic I have never managed to get my typing above 60 women because this is as about as fast as I can think ahead writing.
I wouldn't complain if you can type as fast as 60 women! ;)
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#29They have my emails, they have my documents, they have my pictures, they have my location, they have my browsing history, and now they can have my voice. Only lacks DNA, fingerprints, retina footprint and non-verbal communication. Oh wait, it's only a matter of time.
This is what really concerns me, and why I've avoided using 'google now' on my phone. With this data, google could easily construct a 'voice signature' for every one of their users. And those voice signatures are just one FISA warrant away from falling into the hands of various national security agencies.
I would rather google had my DNA on file if I had to choose between the two. Why? Because voice signatures can be used to passively authenticate/identify someone without them even realising they've been authenticated/identified. You just need control of a nearby microphone while they happen to be talking. At least with DNA, I'd probably notice someone jabbing a needle in my arm or sticking a cotton swab in my mouth.