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Eg: "Switch on the lights" becomes
{"action": "switch_on", "thing" : "lights" }
etc.. I'm trying really hard to remember the name but it escapes me.
Speech recognition and will go very well together.
Tangentially related: Does anyone remember the name of this startup/service that was on HN (I believe), that enables you to infer actions from plaintext. Eg: "Switch on the lights" becomes {"action": "switch_on", "thing" : "lights" } etc.. I'm trying really hard to remember the name but it escapes me. Speech recognition and will go very well together.
I think this more directly competes with the IBM Watson speech API, not Nuance?
Why? This is almost exactly what Nuance provides: https://developer.nuance.com/public/index.php?task=memberSer...
Try Googling "speech recognition api"...
Tangentially related: Does anyone remember the name of this startup/service that was on HN (I believe), that enables you to infer actions from plaintext. Eg: "Switch on the lights" becomes {"action": "switch_on", "thing" : "lights" } etc.. I'm trying really hard to remember the name but it escapes me. Speech recognition and will go very well together.
Our service Wit.ai (YC W14) does just that. Demo: https://labs.wit.ai/demo/index.html
I would say that Google's main goal here is in expanding their training data set, as opposed to creating a new revenue stream. If it hurts competitors (e.g. Nuance) that might only be a side-effect of that main objective, and likely they will not aim to hurt the competition intentionally. As others here have pointed out, the value now for GOOG is in building the best training data-set in the business, as opposed to j…
This is HUGE in my opinion. Prior to this, in order to get near state-of-the-art speech recognition in your system/application you either had to have/hire expertise to build your own or pay Nuance a significant amount of money to use theirs. Nuance has always been a "big bad" company in my mind. If I recall correctly, they've sued many of their smaller competitors out of existence and only do expensive enterprise dea…
Has Google sued many of their smaller competitors out of business?
I would say that Google's main goal here is in expanding their training data set, as opposed to creating a new revenue stream. If it hurts competitors (e.g. Nuance) that might only be a side-effect of that main objective, and likely they will not aim to hurt the competition intentionally. As others here have pointed out, the value now for GOOG is in building the best training data-set in the business, as opposed to j…
Question from a machine learning noob: how would they use an unlabeled dataset for training? Would Google employees listen to it all (if the ToS would even allow that) and transscribe it, then use the result for training? Or is there another way to make it useful without being labeled?
So this was very, very exciting until I realized you have to be using Google Cloud Platform to sign up for the preview. Unfortunately all of my stuff is in AWS and I could move it over but I'm not going (far too much hassle to preview an API I may not end up using, ultimately). Regardless this is still very exiting. I haven't found anything that's as good as Google's voice recognition. I only hope this ends up being…
I don't think there's any requirement that you use Google Compute Engine in order to use this API. Yes, you sign up for an account, but of course you have to sign up for an account to use it. This API is part of the platform. Similarly, you can use the Google Translate API without using Compute Engine, App Engine, etc. Note: I work for Google (but not on any of these products).
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Question from a machine learning noob: how would they use an unlabeled dataset for training? Would Google employees listen to it all (if the ToS would even allow that) and transscribe it, then use the result for training? Or is there another way to make it useful without being labeled?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsupervised_learning
I came across CMU Sphnix speech recognition library ( http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net ) that has a BSD-style license and they just released a big update last month. It supports embedded and remote speech recognition. Could be a nice alternative for someone who may not need all of the bells and whistles and prefers to have more control rather than relying on an API which may not be free for long. Side note: if anyone…