So if I understand the situation correctly, using this offer, we all feed the AI Google is building, thereby creating another Google monopoly situation (the AI system that gets the most training will be the strongest, thereby attracting even more users/training and becoming even stronger).
Google opens access to its speech recognition API
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Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because speech recognition occurs on Google servers, not locally.
Speech recognition can occur either locally or on Google's servers. Since about 2012 [1], Android has been able to do some types of speech recognition, like dictation, on local devices. Additionally, Google Research has recently expanded on this functionality and it seems like much more of the speech recognition will be done locally [2]. [1] http://www.androidcentral.com/jelly-bean-brings-offline-voic... [2] http://w…
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Since Android is open-source, would that mean that the voice recognition software (and/or trained coefficients) could, in principle, be ported to Linux?
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#53"Google may choose to raise those prices over time, after it becomes the dominant player in the industry." ...Isn't that specifically what anticompetition laws were written to prevent?
As a developer I might be more worried about it not becoming at least amongst the dominant players because they might just drop it. But maybe they only do that with consumer facing items?
Google kills off APIs often. Remember the whole Translate API fiasco? Though that was for overuse, not underuse.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#54I think they are pushing back against Amazon's Echo speech APIs, which I have experimented with.
I just applied for early access.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wasn't that five years ago? When it came out of preview (and prices were expected to change)?
It was - 2011 is mentioned in both article and my comment. I just wish Google wouldn't bring back memories of that by not disclosing pricing of a very promising API. GAE has moved quite far ahead since then, but many people still won't consider it after the bad experience. Perceptions die hard...
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Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#56I came across CMU Sphnix speech recognition library ( http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net ) that has a BSD-style license and they just released a big update last month. It supports embedded and remote speech recognition. Could be a nice alternative for someone who may not need all of the bells and whistles and prefers to have more control rather than relying on an API which may not be free for long. Side note: if anyone…
There is a project for Rapberry Pi to use Sphinx to roll your own Amazon Echo like device. You might want to take a look at that.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like most machine-learning applications, the source code isn't the interesting part, the data is. Google started by training on millions of phrases from Google 411, and then they've been able to continue training anytime someone issues a voice command to an Android device. They have orders of magnitude more data than you could fit into a GitHub repository.
Couldn't you just download subtitles for old movies and train using those?
That's actually a pretty good idea. Lyrics for rap music might also be a good training data set. It'd bias strongly toward English, though, and particularly American English. I suspect the size of the resulting data set is also quite a bit smaller than what Google has.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#58I think this more directly competes with the IBM Watson speech API, not Nuance?
Well NUAN took a 5% price hit after the announcement today, so maybe there's some overlap?
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speech recognition can occur either locally or on Google's servers. Since about 2012 [1], Android has been able to do some types of speech recognition, like dictation, on local devices. Additionally, Google Research has recently expanded on this functionality and it seems like much more of the speech recognition will be done locally [2]. [1] http://www.androidcentral.com/jelly-bean-brings-offline-voic... [2] http://w…
> always-on-google-ai-gives-android-voice-recognition-that-works-on-or-offline Since Android is open-source, would that mean that the voice recognition software (and/or trained coefficients) could, in principle, be ported to Linux?
"Android" as it is distributed in mobile devices has some Google proprietary components.
Re: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
#60Will be interesting to compare with http://www.speechmatics.com