Voice on my pixel 3 is incredible. I normally have problems with voice recognition but this understands me better than some friends I have. It really is magical.
Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
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I refuse to put an amazon/apple/google surveillance device in my home, so I am very interested in a DIY digital assistant device. I'm aware of a few options but it seems like offline voice recognition is always a little sub-par. I am really looking forward to the day when an offline, open source digital assistant can compare in quality to a proprietary/cloud device.
It shouldn't be offline, using recognition online but at your own cloud would be the way too.
uh, "cloud" isn't a magical thing that has specialized hardware for voice recognition. It is just a computer. Just like the device you have locally.
So if the device locally can run the NN then there is no need to have a "cloud" do it. You only add latency.
Re: Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
It shouldn't be offline, using recognition online but at your own cloud would be the way too.
uh, "cloud" isn't a magical thing that has specialized hardware for voice recognition. It is just a computer. Just like the device you have locally. So if the device locally can run the NN then there is no need to have a "cloud" do it. You only add latency.
On-demand Xeon with GPU in the cloud is quite different from local ESP32.
Re: Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
#134AI systems that are able to work offline are great for privacy. The thought that every interaction with my phone is being streamed in realtime to a third party server freaks me out. Kudos to Google for working on this.
I hope they add this to the Web Speech API in Chrome. It doesn't have punctuation right now and that's a killer for me.
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#135Re: Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
#136There is an excellent overview over their speech recognition system.
http://iscslp2018.org/images/T4_Towards%20end-to-end%20speec...
Re: Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
#137Now they can save valuable CPU time and your phone will extract advertising keywords from your conversations for them, even without an internet connection. It's way more efficient to cache speech converted to text while offline rather than audio clips. The servers get cleaned up text data, saving bandwidth and storage.
Re: Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
#138These end-to-end speech recognition systems are very intriguing. One major limitation is that since they don't model phonetics, they have no great way to deal with highly irregular orthography that doesn't show up in the training data. For example, there is no great way for the system to learn that the pronunciation "black" can be spelled "6LACK" sometimes. The paper on arXiv goes into how they deal with this. Basica…
I'm wondering if we'll see it write emoji at some point.
Re: Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
#139AI systems that are able to work offline are great for privacy. The thought that every interaction with my phone is being streamed in realtime to a third party server freaks me out. Kudos to Google for working on this.
They can still send the information they collected from your microphone later, when you connect to the internet ...
You want an open source solution, not just an offline solution.
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There is this new type of trolling where someone just puts in bare minimal counterarguments and asks for citations knowing full well it's labour intensive to do so. If your not trolling.. your not doing a good job of avoiding these comparisons. The onus should be on you here to provide citations first that dissprove the person your replying to.
Closely related to sea-lioning, in my opinion.
Absolutely.