article on Android speech recognition

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Posted by jimspoon
Feb 3, 2012 at 06:26 AM

I thought this was a fascinating article:
Now You’re Talking
Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/04/now_youre_talking.html

Big implications for our collection of information in our outliners / PIMs / notetakers.

I think it would be a great idea to create a dedicated voice recorder device with its own 3g connection to Google - just press and hold a hardware button to speak, release to stop - the audio gets uploaded to google servers, and when you reach your computer, your transcribed text is already in your outliner.

Google does a good job of transcribing the speech I speak into my Android device, but Google Voice doesn’t do very well at all in transcribing the voicemail messages that people leave for me. I suppose Google gets much higher quality audio from my Android phone than it gets from calling phones.

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