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It seemed to me that Cortana returned the most correct answers without any extra fluff. The google results seemed to have the same accuracy but the phone said so much extra information in that monotonic voice that the clarity of the result was lost in the noise.
Slightly OT, but in school I remember a teach talking about how good voice to text has gotten but was stuck, stating it was roughly about a 70% accuracy, but that we were pretty much at a wall there and haven't moved much in the last decade. Has there been any major advances in voice recognition other than just growing your speech corpus?
edit thought I'd add this. I just had a conversation with a united agent and they probably understood less than 70% of what I was saying. it was beyond frustrating I wish that I was actually talking to my phone instead.
Someone submitted this and deleted it a bit before this submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8430202 Anyway, there I was trying to find out which speech recognition software was more accurate. How do these compare to Dragon? It seems like we're quite close to being able to actually using voice dictation without the frustration.
Oh awesome, let's see... how many atoms are there in the universe? "The number of atoms in the entire observable universe is estimated to be within the range of 1078 to 1082." Thank you Google! http://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+atoms+are+in+the+uni... ]
Actually, they all seem to me pretty limited compared to the answers you get from Wolfram Alpha.
Also c.f. the responses to one of their test questions, "how much is a quarter cup of butter?". Google makes fun of the inquiry. Wolfram Alpha gives you a thorough nutritional profile, and links to variations based on international cup sizing and different types of butter.
The article concludes that google is dramatically ahead, which is no suprise but I AM suprised, anecdotally, how good Siri is vs previous iterations on my iphone 6 and OS 8 It feels close to "good enough" for the majority of functions I actually use eg: dictate an email, get directions, lookup a contact, and dial a phone number. My sense is that Apple will nail the base functions so that most users, self included, wo…
In terms of 80 % functionality I think all three are quite close. In terms of general features I think Android is already lightyears ahead. But I need a solid day-to-day phone with consistent usablitity concepts and I'm very tempted to give WP a try as it seems to be the cleanest here. Let's see what WP 10 brings ...
Edit: some data at http://www.quora.com/Is-anyone-working-on-an-open-source-ver... & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987875
The article concludes that google is dramatically ahead, which is no suprise but I AM suprised, anecdotally, how good Siri is vs previous iterations on my iphone 6 and OS 8 It feels close to "good enough" for the majority of functions I actually use eg: dictate an email, get directions, lookup a contact, and dial a phone number. My sense is that Apple will nail the base functions so that most users, self included, wo…
This is how I interpret most responses when people talk about Apple.
Oh awesome, let's see... how many atoms are there in the universe? "The number of atoms in the entire observable universe is estimated to be within the range of 1078 to 1082." Thank you Google! http://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+atoms+are+in+the+uni... ]
Just a formatting issue.
Slightly OT, but in school I remember a teach talking about how good voice to text has gotten but was stuck, stating it was roughly about a 70% accuracy, but that we were pretty much at a wall there and haven't moved much in the last decade. Has there been any major advances in voice recognition other than just growing your speech corpus?