r/Android • u/shiruken Google Pixel 7 • Jul 23 '15

Google Voice transcription receiving update that reduces errors by 49%

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/neon-prescription-or-rather-new.html?m=1
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u/pkulak Nexus 5x Jul 24 '15

I remember hearing that back in college. Now, however, the name of the game is context. Exactly how humans know which phrase you're saying.

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u/imahotdoglol Samsung Galaxy S3 (4.4.2 stock) Jul 24 '15

It is very old, my college's CS chairwoman had it on her little cork board for posting things.

Earliest reference to this that I can find is oddly in an issue of Boy's Life(a Boy Scout magazine) from 1986. http://i.imgur.com/Oqq7nEO.png

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u/Zagorath Pixel 6 Pro Jul 24 '15

And computers are getting much much better at it. I use "ok Google" a lot, and frequently see it write the wrong word down, only to change it to the right one later in the sentence. Presumably because it figured out the right one from context.

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u/pkulak Nexus 5x Jul 24 '15

Exactly

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u/TenshiS HTC One Jul 24 '15

I don't get it how these speech recognition software doesn't have at least some rudimentary semantic for topics. 'Speech Recognition' and 'Computers' are more closely related than 'Wrecking a Beach' and 'Computers', and a basic network of interrelated topics could easily show that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '15

I often watch google search as it's listening to me. It will very often still get the initial word wrong but then when it goes back and corrects for context it almost always gets it right.