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For me it seems like Google voice typing is getting worse and worse. It capitalizes random Words in a sentence Like this. It specifically ignores the word "o'clock".
I'm curious about the privacy policies behind both engines and their development. Google's gotten an advantage in many fields by simply trampling over user's rights. Apple has been more respectful of user rights, and that's kind of made life harder for them too.
Here's my controversial post of the day: I'm okay with Google trampling on my rights, in exchange for the things it gives. Personalized search results, better ad hoc translation, all of these things work well only because they have my data. And for me, I like these things enough that I'm perfectly okay with the trade.
The controversy is that you don't get to choose. It is extremely hard to avoid giving your data to Google if you don't want to make that trade. You can't use an Android phone, you can't use ubiquitous services like Google Search, Youtube, GMail, or Google Maps, you can't use any website without being sure to block Google Analytics, Adsense, reCaptcha, and whatever else they own.
It's possible, but it's very hard, and requires constant vigilance. It is not a free choice in any meaningful sense.
Some hackers have been trying to reuse Google's offline speech recognition models within other software toolkits, https://hackaday.io/project/164399-android-offline-speech-re... > Especially the offline part is very appealing to me, as it should to any privacy conscious mind. Unfortunately this speech recognizer is only available to Pixel owners at this time. Since GBoard uses TensorFlow Lite, and the blog post is al…
How hard, on a scale of 1 to impossible, how hard would it be for Apple, or someone else to just grab the model google is using from the pixel and reverse engineer it and steal all their years of research.
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Because the alternative is Android, which is very difficult to de-Google. Even if you do de-Google you need to open yourself up to a swath of security concerns. Why would I trust some internet account that is giving me a binary that compromises my phone for me? Should I trust that it will only do what they say it will do because they are a good person? Would they have nothing to gain for having complete control of my…
GrapheneOS is a de-googled Android and secure.
There are already some novel applications of this. It is extremely useful to use Google's screening service for unknown numbers that might be a call I'm expecting from a new number. I can't recall the last time I actually listened to a voicemail. I know that at least voicemail transcription works elsewhere, and I can't speak to how well, but I do know that on the Pixel, transcription is really quite impressively accu…
My iPhone transcribes voicemails so slowly that most times it's faster and easier to just listen to it.
Is it worth the hassle to try and stand a reasonable chance of failure, and then also have to do it manually, or should I just skip to the chase and do it myself.
Unless I’m setting a timer, probably just do it myself.
But what about transcription accuracy? I mainly use Android but also use an iPhone.... I have found transcription accuracy is so much higher on my iPhone then Android.
I pulled out my old BlackBerry (Android) when I sent my Android phone in for repair recently. The voice transcription via blackberry's keyboard is hands down better then either stock Google or iPhone. It's surprisingly feels like a regression going back to the new phone (other than speed and battery life)
Is this really calling Apple’s transcription service? And does it maybe even add some latency?
For me it seems like Google voice typing is getting worse and worse. It capitalizes random Words in a sentence Like this. It specifically ignores the word "o'clock".
Google pixel 3a, reading your comment: "for me it seems like Google voice typing is getting worse and worse. It capitalizes random words in a sentence like this. It's specifically ignores the word o clock."