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Google AI blog: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp... arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06621
Interesting that they're using RNN transducer. I thought everyone's moved to CNN lately.
Call me when it can figure out my wife's Italian name, pronounced correctly :-(
Downvoter(s): sorry, but it's true. Google can't figure out my wife's name, which is pretty freaking lame, as she's the person I interact with the most in terms of sending messages and emails and whatnot.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/340108/how-to...
The paper on arXiv goes into how they deal with this. Basically they run a traditional WFST decoder over the output of the RNN-T to take spelling context into account. Still, it's impressive how far the neural system can get with no explicit lexicon or acoustic modeling in general.
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Another benefit is privacy, this eliminates an entire set of potentially personal data from being handed off to Google.
Gboard is governed by Google's catch all privacy policy, that allows them to gather all data and mine everything. If you have an android device with Google services and a firewall, you'll see that the device is constantly phoning home, which is also noted in the privacy policy. This does nothing for privacy, rather than provide the illusion of privacy.
Finally google has caught up to 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking Sure it might work better now, but that's expected when computers are much more powerful than a pentium 100 with 32MB of RAM. Uploading voice to google servers for processing was always just a data grab.
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Google Maps has an excellent offline mode on iOS and Android. I wish Apple Maps had that too.
If only it didn't force-expire downloaded maps after a while...
Seems pretty reasonable to me, after all roads do change over time.
My main motivation is to make nav less bandwidth intensive (I pay per GB with Google FI) and to ensure I have maps even if I don't have a good data connection.
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If only it didn't force-expire downloaded maps after a while...
My offline maps expire in years, not in months or weeks. I'm not sure that's a huge issue, roads change over time and eventually maps will be so old that they are harmful.
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That's stupid. I do offline maps mainly for the times when I don't have a good connection. It makes no sense to lose the maps when you are spending an extended amount of time off-grid. That's exactly when you need offline maps.
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Google Maps has an excellent offline mode on iOS and Android. I wish Apple Maps had that too.
It's one of those features that makes one think... Why am I being notified about this at all? Can't this be taken care of without my input?
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On the other hand, when you can transcribe locally, uploading whole days worth of eavesropping would not cause a noticeable spike in traffic. I'd consider it more a lateral change than an improvement.
install a firewall (there are root/no root) options) and block google keyboard's internet access.