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Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Post by cellover »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #34
cellover wrote: post #25

They 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.

I was waiting for this comment. What's the alternative? No voice-recognition? Voice recognition that only runs client-side and lacks all the advantages a centralised service can provide?An equivalent provided by someone else that, for whatever reason, you trust more than Google? Edit: I didn't downvote you, though, and I've upvoted to counteract whoever did. The point you're raising can clearly contribute to an inter…

Thanks for the edit. It is quite amusing to see the up and down votes going, my karma keeps moving but stays about the same. Maybe I should have been even more sarcastic!

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Post by gz5 »

I first realized the voice to text improvement while watching my three-year old daughter search on my Android tablet...she can't spell (correctly) but used Google voice search quite effectively.

This should enable the very young, the very old, the disabled, etc. to digitize (and therefore share) their words, stories and worlds. Powerful.

Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Post by lallysingh »

spangry wrote: post #59
lallysingh wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your actual voice is one regular warrant away, with a wiretap on your phone.

True, but that warrant can only be obtained from the judicial branch of government by law enforcement officers conducting a criminal investigation, and only if it meets the following criteria (among many others which I've excluded for brevity, see: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2518 ): - a full and complete statement of the facts and circumstances relied upon by the applicant, to justify his belief that…

I think you have more faith than I do in the process. Couldn't the relevant LEs pick & choose the most friendly judge?

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Post by rybosome »

ACow_Adonis wrote: post #24

Its 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 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.

As far as I know, I have good hearing, and I often struggle to understand people. It would be interesting to see what a human error rate on transcription is.

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Post by ghaff »

dharma1 wrote: post #52

This is really nice. I think laptops will need to start having array mics for better far-field capture. Tested it for a quick Todo list and it was about 95% accurate. I can see myself using this

I suspect that array mics can be important for accurate voice recognition. My anecdotal impression, for example, is that Amazon Echo is MUCH better than Siri on an iPhone at recognizing what I'm saying. I can tell Echo from across the room with music playing to add something to a shopping list and it gets things mostly right.

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Post by brockers »

The Chrome integration is what is new right? I have been using Google Docs via phone using voice typing for a LONG time now.

In fact, when I wanted to use voice typing at my desk I would just open the phone, open the document on both the phone and Chrome and watch the text appear on screen. Then edit it from the keyboard.

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

eternalban wrote: post #85

Biometerics [1]. Googling for Google's biometrics privacy policy.[2] HN likes to talk about the layperson non-techies disregard for technology's impact on our rights, but a grep of this thread turned up no hits on biometrics. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics [2]: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=inurl:google.com+privac...

This thread doesn't hit on "chemtrails" either.

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Post by cbhl »

melling wrote: post #82
ACow_Adonis wrote: post #24

Its 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…

Dragon Naturally Speaking has been great for years. Developers have been using it to cobble together a voice programming solution for a few years: https://www.extrahop.com/community/blog/2014/programming-by-... http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html I've got more notes on Github: https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra... We really seem to be at the point where voice is ready to beco…

Wasn't there a case where the core engineer on Dragon was screwed out of being able to continue working on the product / in the field?

Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Post by kaghaffa »

pjc50 wrote: post #86
brotchie wrote: post #18

Super impressive. My wife just spoke full-speed Vietnamese into a Google Doc, 100% correct, even the tone marks.

Do you have to tell it what language you're using in advance?

Yes, there's a dropdown where you select the language you're going to speak.
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