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Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Post by melling »

shanselman wrote: post #129
melling wrote: post #125

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David Pogue has been using Dragon for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GXX-SJuQM John Siracusa used Dragon to write his 20,000 word Mac reviews. Developers have even used Dragon to assist with programming: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html I think voice accuracy is there but we need more integration with our apps and operating systems. Consistency would help too. Google recognizes "u…

Point taken but I would guess that they use nice headset mics and extensively train (and maintain and carry around) their voice databases. With Siri you can get 99% accuracy if you dicate punctuation and there's no training or fancy mics.

I don't believe you need to extensively train the voice database. Most don't require any training to start. Don't think expensive microphones either. Maybe you should just read some of the links already posted.

Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Post by throwaway049 »

shanselman wrote: post #101

Voice dictation is HUGELY useful but few people use it anymore. Most of us tried Dragon in years past, it sucked, and we gave up. I believe so much in this that I made a Siri->Windows bridge and dictate 80% of my text with it. (except that hash rocket) http://myechoapp.com/

I like the look of your product, but I think you are being disingenuous having this text on your main page "We don't store any of your words and your data never touches our disks.". I don't think you would put people off by making the Siri note in the privacy policy more prominent.

Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Post by throwaway049 »

melling wrote: post #131
shanselman wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Point taken but I would guess that they use nice headset mics and extensively train (and maintain and carry around) their voice databases. With Siri you can get 99% accuracy if you dicate punctuation and there's no training or fancy mics.

I don't believe you need to extensively train the voice database. Most don't require any training to start. Don't think expensive microphones either. Maybe you should just read some of the links already posted.

Dragon strongly recommends training and using a good mic, but mine is good and cost 30 BP which I don't think is expensive in this context. Initial training takes about 15 minutes.

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Post by jimothyhalpert7 »

Is there any information about an API for this? I know that they abandoned their old Voice to Text API, which is sad, because there aren't that many alternatives out there. I'm using Watson right now, but it's really bad, and the language range is very narrow. I'm also open to any suggestions for Voice to Text online APIs or local server side solutions.

Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs

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Post by shanselman »

throwaway049 wrote: post #132
shanselman wrote: post #101

Voice dictation is HUGELY useful but few people use it anymore. Most of us tried Dragon in years past, it sucked, and we gave up. I believe so much in this that I made a Siri->Windows bridge and dictate 80% of my text with it. (except that hash rocket) http://myechoapp.com/

I like the look of your product, but I think you are being disingenuous having this text on your main page "We don't store any of your words and your data never touches our disks.". I don't think you would put people off by making the Siri note in the privacy policy more prominent.

Good feedback. Not intending to be disingenuous. I'll talk to my partner about how we can make that clearer. It's intending to explain that our software (iOS, Windows, Cloud) never logs or saves any of the text.
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