Comments on: Can Speech Recognition Find Its Voice in Computing? http://gigaom.com/2009/10/29/can-speech-recognition-find-its-voice-in-computing/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SpinVox: From Flush to Flushed – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2009/10/29/can-speech-recognition-find-its-voice-in-computing/#comment-228682 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:55:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=77558#comment-228682 [...] pursuing patents and startups in the speech-recognition space, as it battles both Google and Microsoft as voice recognition grows from a niche market thanks to mobile phones. So a deal wouldn’t be [...]

]]> By: Jerry Fahrni » “What’d I miss?” – Week of October 25th http://gigaom.com/2009/10/29/can-speech-recognition-find-its-voice-in-computing/#comment-228681 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:31:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=77558#comment-228681 [...] GigaOM: “Microsoft once again is touting its speech-recognition technology, predicting on its site [...]

]]> By: Adam http://gigaom.com/2009/10/29/can-speech-recognition-find-its-voice-in-computing/#comment-228680 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:40:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=77558#comment-228680 I hope they crack voice regognition.

]]> By: Reid Williams http://gigaom.com/2009/10/29/can-speech-recognition-find-its-voice-in-computing/#comment-228679 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:39:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=77558#comment-228679 I remember stark disappointment at the performance and reliability of speech recognition software I experimented with 15 years ago in college. That has transformed into wonder at my speech-recognizing Google mobile app. That led to a search for more information about the current state of the technology. Only then did I realize that my Macbook Pro is enabled with speech recognition for certain commands. I played with it for an hour, but I guess old habits die hard because I haven’t used it since and stick to my mouse and keyboard.

I do think, however, that it’s just a matter of acculturation. For younger people who grow up on it, it will become second nature and they’ll laugh about their grandparents clunky, old, manual technology.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/10/29/can-speech-recognition-find-its-voice-in-computing/#comment-228678 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:11:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=77558#comment-228678 I actually use speech recognition software in typing up my posts, and think it will have a hard time, not because it isn’t a good interface, but because there’s a steep learning curve in figuring out how to talk to a computer so it knows what you want it to do. For example, when I ask my computer to Open Firefox I need to tell the software whether I want it to actually open Firefox or if I want it to type “open Firefox” or even “open fire fox.” Plus, there are hundreds of commands to master verbally for tasks like cutting and pasting links into a post for example. However, once that stuff is learned, it’s pretty awesome.

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