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Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
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Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#82Its pretty impressive. I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training. But I did say pretty close. Not exactly right. And I'm only speaking a few sentences. I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right…
Dragon Naturally Speaking has been great for years. Developers have been using it to cobble together a voice programming solution for a few years:
https://www.extrahop.com/community/blog/2014/programming-by-...
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html
I've got more notes on Github:
https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...
We really seem to be at the point where voice is ready to become part of our daily use once a real API becomes available. People who use Dragon, for example, need to use the Windows version because of the hooks to Python.
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#83Its pretty impressive. I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training. But I did say pretty close. Not exactly right. And I'm only speaking a few sentences. I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right…
Humans don't follow what you say :) On this topic I have never managed to get my typing above 60 women because this is as about as fast as I can think ahead writing.
Also known as the "room full of typewriter-armed secretaries" technique?
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#84Its pretty impressive. I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training. But I did say pretty close. Not exactly right. And I'm only speaking a few sentences. I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right…
Curious, are you using the English (Australia) setting?
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#85Biometerics [1]. Googling for Google's biometrics privacy policy.[2]
HN likes to talk about the layperson non-techies disregard for technology's impact on our rights, but a grep of this thread turned up no hits on biometrics.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics
[2]: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=inurl:google.com+privac...
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#86Super impressive. My wife just spoke full-speed Vietnamese into a Google Doc, 100% correct, even the tone marks.
Do you have to tell it what language you're using in advance?
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#87I tried it a few days ago and it was amazing, even in Spanish (latam accent) and English with my non-native accent.
Anyone knows if this is available through API? I would love something like this when writing text on emacs & org mode :-)
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#88This sounds like it could be a massive step up for disabled and low literacy people worldwide. The fact that it's in so many languages, and accessible anywhere with internet, really distinguishes it.
To the contrary, I believe, while it will be helpful in a number of ways, the orthography skills would likely suffer from lack of exercise as a computer takes on the task. Writing helps a lot to have to think about the spelling.
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is there something particular about Vietnamese that makes it easier than other languages for dictations? phonemic orthographies (These languages should work better) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography English is highly non-phonemic the only language I would think is worst is French/Greek with silent letters and the different accents and in Modern Greek /i/ can be written in six different ways: ι, η…
What other languages are like this?
The linked Wikipedia page on phonemic orthography uses Serbian as an exemplar. This section looks like what you're after - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography#Compariso....
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#90Why isn't this just built into the browser or the OS?
Dictation is built into recent versions of OSX.