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Speech Recognition

PhantomWolf

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After discovering I had a flat battery in my laptop and hand-writing a few pages of my short story, I attempted to use Windows 10's speech recognition as a quick way to enter the work I had done. Below is the result, I think I might have to do a little more work with it. Does anyone else have any horror stories about trying to use it? I'll admit that some of the punctuation issues are mine in learning to use the software. Enjoy, or not.

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I’m a northerner living in the south - and I can tell you the speech recognition software used by the people down here is much worse.
 
PhantomWolf said:
After discovering I had a flat battery in my laptop and hand-writing a few pages of my short story, I attempted to use Windows 10's speech recognition as a quick way to enter the work I had done. Below is the result, I think I might have to do a little more work with it. Does anyone else have any horror stories about trying to use it? I'll admit that some of the punctuation issues are mine in learning to use the software. Enjoy, or not.
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You have to go into the settings and set it to "use speech only" instead of the default "use speech and brainwaves." It's clearly picking up too many of your thoughts and subconscious wishes.

Watch what happens when I set mine to default mode: it seems to woke at first, butt Hartford in cooking oil that's nice baby carburetor 72 with underage blanket along the extradition line unholy ritual oh yes oh no monsters, monsters from the id!
 
My mom's Alexa seems to be constantly judging how I speak, she frequently mistakes what I say. I know I'm not the clearest speaker (I'm Southern) but I think she's being passive-aggressive.
 
Does the speech recognition software get the copyright on the work from which the above snippet is taken? It clearly wasn't written by a human.


Here's my Microsoft speech recognition story. My son was in the third grade or so, about eight years old, at the age when timed multiplication table drills were something the students were subjected to. "Mad minutes" is what his teacher called them. Simple enough, a page of multiplication problems, 40 in all, to be completed in one minute.

He wasn't doing well on them. This, we thought, was odd, because he was considered to be the best mathematician among the 8 year olds at his school, and not just by his parents. We wondered what could be wrong. So, we administered some ourselves. He never got past about 23 problems, usually all correct, or sometimes with one error.

I watched him write out the answers and said, "Ok. This time, instead of doing math problems, I want you to write the numbers 1 through 40. " He got to 27.

I knew that speech recognition was by then available in the .Net Framework, so I wrote a quick program to present multiplication problems and allow the user to say, instead of write the problems. It worked flawlessly, and I got 40 in the required minute. So, how would the offspring do? Zero. The software did not recognize his voice. He spoke clearly, with no defects, but the software couldn't register it.

I took it to work and tried it with accents from the Middle East, Serbia, India, and China. Some of these accents were pretty thick, especially the Chinese guy. No problem. It recognized them all, but it could not recognize a child's voice.
 
Darat said:
I’m a northerner living in the south - and I can tell you the speech recognition software used by the people down here is much worse.
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Testify!

While avoiding the stuff on home computers it can be unavoidable using some telephone services: **** knows how some of those are set up, but my mild Durham accent and CFQ's mild Geordie accent seem to flummox a lot of these things.
 
All my doctors use speech recognition. (Dragon Medical Edition or M*Modal mostly).

About... 75% of them have heavy, heavy Indian subcontinent accents.

It's fun sometimes. (Although to be fair even in the last couple of years the accuracy on some of the higher end programs has gone way up. M*Modal especially seems fairly good)
 
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