http://almaer.com/blog/twitterfone-voice-recognition-can-be-dangerous-here blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://almaer.com/blog/twitterfone-voice-recognition-can-be-dangerous-here/comment-page-1#comment-38681 tobias Fri, 23 May 2008 17:35:14 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/twitterfone-voice-recognition-can-be-dangerous-here#comment-38681 ha ha, i saw your Man U tweet and wondered... now I get it :) Having spent 3 years in the speech recognition world, i agree that it always seems to be "10 year out". Quite frankly, it just doesn't work very well. As you point out, Tell Me and Goog 411 are the right applications - consumer-input-only and non-critical. Anything that converts to consumer-output (e.g. twitterphone) or is critical (i would agrue, depending on the circumstance, a lot of call center automation - especially travel), is a bloody nightmare! I haven't tested MSFT's latest and greatest in-car voice rec tech yet. I'd imagine that's ok (limited set of grammars to recognize - e.g. "turn radio on" - makes the job a lot easier). But, yes, HAL-style VUI is still a way off :) ha ha, i saw your Man U tweet and wondered… now I get it :)
Having spent 3 years in the speech recognition world, i agree that it always seems to be “10 year out”. Quite frankly, it just doesn’t work very well. As you point out, Tell Me and Goog 411 are the right applications – consumer-input-only and non-critical. Anything that converts to consumer-output (e.g. twitterphone) or is critical (i would agrue, depending on the circumstance, a lot of call center automation – especially travel), is a bloody nightmare! I haven’t tested MSFT’s latest and greatest in-car voice rec tech yet. I’d imagine that’s ok (limited set of grammars to recognize – e.g. “turn radio on” – makes the job a lot easier). But, yes, HAL-style VUI is still a way off :)

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