When I see this - I really appreciate how good 'Watson' is with speech to text!
Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
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Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#32Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with Chrome turning on the mic, recording sound and posting it to a foreign server without asking whether it was allowed to? Feels like this could be abused. Would have appreciated an "Allow goolgle.com to access your microphone?" security question.
I'm ok with it. Much in the same way I don't expect to be asked if it's ok to send data to their servers every time I do a normal text search. In what way do you think it could be abused?
It's one of those web things, without a prompt it feels like any site ever could just recording through the mic and saving it.
Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#33Non-native English speaker:
Haskell web frameworks - √.
Tigers in India - √.
Friedrich Nietzsche - what is a meter.
Programming best practices - √.
Contemporary philosophy - √.
I bet you look good on the dance floor - √.
Random beatboxing - the gap at the top of the pita pit.Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm ok with it. Much in the same way I don't expect to be asked if it's ok to send data to their servers every time I do a normal text search. In what way do you think it could be abused?
It's one of those web things, without a prompt it feels like any site ever could just recording through the mic and saving it.
Didn't you have to click the mic icon before it started recording anything?
Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#35Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with Chrome turning on the mic, recording sound and posting it to a foreign server without asking whether it was allowed to? Feels like this could be abused. Would have appreciated an "Allow goolgle.com to access your microphone?" security question.
I don't think it allows any arbitrary website to record your sounds. Your browser is in charge of turning your sounds into text right?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's one of those web things, without a prompt it feels like any site ever could just recording through the mic and saving it.
Didn't you have to click the mic icon before it started recording anything?
Yes, but I don't know what the mic icon is. Does it just call a function? Is it a Chrome-provided icon that is always on top? Can the menu that is shown be edited by the website?
Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#37On blind faith alone, I have to imagine this will be improved significantly going forward.
I use Google's voice recognition algorithms/systems on my Android phone all the time. Every day. Often to dictate complete SMS and Emails, while I'm driving, via my car's AD2P bluetooth mic, with all the ambient noise/etc present in a car on the interstate. (Though to be fair it's not an aftermarket bluetooth solution and I'm sure the mic is high quality and well placed.)
It is very good. The most common type of mistake -- and still rare at that -- is stuff like "let's not go until..." is transcribed as "let's not going tell" and stuff like that.
When I first started using the voice features when I got the phone (HTC Evo), i was blown away at the quality of the results.
And of course, Google has been practicing this stuff for a very long time. Everybody knows about Goog-411 (which was heaven before I got a smartphone) but does anybody else remember the little gimmick Google Labs page where you can click on the page, then call the number it displays for you, speak your query into the phone, and then right before your eyes your page reloads with your query and results.
That was at least nine years ago.
Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#38For those of you who gets redirected to the localized version of google without the new feature, go to http://www.google.com/en
Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't you have to click the mic icon before it started recording anything?
Yes, but I don't know what the mic icon is. Does it just call a function? Is it a Chrome-provided icon that is always on top? Can the menu that is shown be edited by the website?
It calls a browser function, not a javascript function.
Re: Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
#40Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with Chrome turning on the mic, recording sound and posting it to a foreign server without asking whether it was allowed to? Feels like this could be abused. Would have appreciated an "Allow goolgle.com to access your microphone?" security question.
without asking whether it was allowed to
I'd hope the mic icon and popup are part of chrome, rather than being something implemented by the web page. If that's the case then consent is implied by clicking on the mic icon.