How long before Google Voice listens to your phone calls for ad tracking purposes?
Toward better phone call and video transcription with new Cloud Speech-to-Text
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#12I'm still waiting for 10x-100x drop in their prices - I believe that's going to enable a lot of new startups.
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#13How long before we can get a kodi plugin that transcribes the text and translates to the subtitle language you have chosen. I would really be interested in this for Japanese, Korean and Chinese shows that I have to wait sometime months or years before fansubs are available. Though because of Netflix english subs are being available a lot quicker than previously for many of these shows.
.. there's nothing stopping you from writing it, it's just a few calls to their Google cloud api. it's not an afternoon's work in the scripting language of your choice. the real issue is that I suspect translation might be a bit off at times
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#14So what happens to these transcripts? Google keeps a copy right? What do they do with it after?
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#15> Cloud Speech-to-Text (formerly known as Cloud Speech API) Interesting name change. It’s certainly more precise, but was “Speech API” really confusing people?
Speech API sounds like it generates speech, i.e. TTS
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#16Does anybody know what the existing open-source / free alternatives are? (that you could run on your own servers)?
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#17Going through a course udemy at the moment and thought it would be great if the whole thing was transcribed for easy referencing later.
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#18Does anybody know what the existing open-source / free alternatives are? (that you could run on your own servers)?
The Kaldi toolkit is state of the art, but you have to know quite a bit about speech and natural language processing to create a comparable service that works well (or invest the time to learn it). Definitely not plug and play, though.
Then there are implementations of Baidu’s DeepSpeech (PaddlePaddle: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/DeepSpeech, or Mozilla’s version).
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#19Google can't even get its demo text to speech to work - it's been offline for weeks https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/
Their user focus is shockingly poor. I followed the link from the blog post that said "check out the demo on our product website". Then there's a big button that says "TRY IT FREE". Good, I say. That leads me through a signup process that involves credit cards and whatnot, and then dumps me out on what I guess is the equivalent of the AWS console, not some nice audio test page. So then I root around in the console, f…
This is what you get when you don't have a top-down management style. Teams are given too much freedom, leading to inconsistency. No one has the whole vision of how a product should work. Even if they did have that, they likely don't have the authority to make it happen.
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#20How long before Google Voice listens to your phone calls for ad tracking purposes?
The tracking part will be one step away - i.e, it'll "read the transcript" including all the missed subtle inflections and other subtleties; contextual clues from pitch or tone e.g. sarcasm, which will lead to some hilarious mis-targeting, until LEO (or other Authorities) use a similar system and something dreadful happens.