And two of the people Apple should get to manage the tech in this speech recognition team are Drs. James and Janet Baker. They invented the tech that Siri uses, but were swindled out of their company, Dragon Systems, and the IP was acquired by Nuance, who've not done much but market it. Dr. & Dr. Baker did try to regain some of the IP that was their life-work, through a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, but... you guessed it... the bankers won. Would be really great to see Apple cut them back in to their own work, somehow.
That explains it. I was wondering how people were posting that Siri has unreliable voice recognition when my Android phone is consistently spot on if they were using the same technology.
Google even publishes papers on their deep neural net voice recognition research:
That explains it. I was wondering how people were posting that Siri has unreliable voice recognition when my Android phone is consistently spot on if they were using the same technology.
Anyone who has used Siri voice recognition on an iPhone 5 will attest to how accurate it is -- very. Apple improved the microphone design in the iPhone 5 specifically for Siri and man does it make a difference. You can have all kinds of difficult background noise, yet Siri voice recognition on an iPhone 5 comes out smelling like a rose. Android voice rec. technology has nothing on iOS, unless you're comparing it to older Apple technology which wouldn't be fair.
I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean by "Apple as emblem bling speech recognition teach team in Boston to improv Siri." Would you like for me to search the web?
Why does Siri have to be a girl, I want a sexy Hugh Jackman voice. I would defiantly use it more that's for sure, Suri, would you love me if I was fat, absolutely darling, I love you Siri.
To just now putting a team together? This should have been down a year ago.
Oh, yeah that is kind of strange isn't it. I wonder how much of priority Siri is though. I personally feel crazy enough already, so talking to my gadgets has never been high up on my list. In fact I have never witness anyone ever using it, must be one of those behind closed doors kind of features.
Do you have any citations? I never heard this before. It is pretty obvious that Nuance has a huge market cap (6B) and is involved in lots of things that Apple would probably never want to deal with, but I always assumed that they never even considered trying to buy them.
I have heard this sometime ago just cannot remember the source.
And two of the people Apple should get to manage the tech in this speech recognition team are Drs. James and Janet Baker. They invented the tech that Siri uses, but were swindled out of their company, Dragon Systems, and the IP was acquired by Nuance, who've not done much but market it. Dr. & Dr. Baker did try to regain some of the IP that was their life-work, through a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, but... you guessed it... the bankers won. Would be really great to see Apple cut them back in to their own work, somehow.
Wow, that is an astonishing report. Goldman Sachs getting money for delivering old rope - how disgusting. This is a story of two innovative entrepreneurial people, taking risks, working long hours, developing a company that employed 400 employees; only to be thrown on the rubbish heap, treated derisively and cavalierly by Goldman Sachs, a company which we're supposed to respect for its financial acumen? With antics like that, 'Wall Street', at least Goldman, deserves all the vitriol it gets.
Siri should be taught the following new tricks:
-how to work with the headphone button. For all intents and purposes, it's useless via the headphones button, when I ride my bike. The timing is off, that by the time I start speaking the command, I hear the Siri-out tone. Very frustrating!
-how to change any setting on the iPhone: ex. turn off/on Wi-Fi, etc.
I have heard this sometime ago just cannot remember the source.
Apple has a very strong speech recognition team but apparently everyone was willing to relocate to California. In 2011 Apple recruited a very senior level specialist in the field who didn't want to move to California. When people of sufficient caliber don't want to move then even companies like Apple make concessions.
TL;DR: Apple began building this team at least two years ago.
Did someone really suggest that Apple should have predictive speech recognition? WTF is that?
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And two of the people Apple should get to manage the tech in this speech recognition team are Drs. James and Janet Baker. They invented the tech that Siri uses, but were swindled out of their company, Dragon Systems, and the IP was acquired by Nuance, who've not done much but market it. Dr. & Dr. Baker did try to regain some of the IP that was their life-work, through a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, but... you guessed it... the bankers won. Would be really great to see Apple cut them back in to their own work, somehow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and-a-sale-gone-horribly-awry.html?pagewanted=all
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That explains it. I was wondering how people were posting that Siri has unreliable voice recognition when my Android phone is consistently spot on if they were using the same technology.
Google even publishes papers on their deep neural net voice recognition research:
http://research.google.com/pubs/SpeechProcessing.html
(Microsoft Research also publishes some interesting stuff. Too bad it doesn't all make it into production, but you can download some cool things.)
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That explains it. I was wondering how people were posting that Siri has unreliable voice recognition when my Android phone is consistently spot on if they were using the same technology.
Anyone who has used Siri voice recognition on an iPhone 5 will attest to how accurate it is -- very. Apple improved the microphone design in the iPhone 5 specifically for Siri and man does it make a difference. You can have all kinds of difficult background noise, yet Siri voice recognition on an iPhone 5 comes out smelling like a rose. Android voice rec. technology has nothing on iOS, unless you're comparing it to older Apple technology which wouldn't be fair.
I like guys who are squishy on the inside.:D
This is now just happening? Ugh!
Why is that so bad?
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Why does Siri have to be a girl, I want a sexy Hugh Jackman voice. I would defiantly use it more that's for sure, Suri, would you love me if I was fat, absolutely darling, I love you Siri.
Siri is getting male voices with iOS 7
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Why is that so bad?
To just now putting a team together? This should have been down a year ago.
Oh, yeah that is kind of strange isn't it. I wonder how much of priority Siri is though. I personally feel crazy enough already, so talking to my gadgets has never been high up on my list. In fact I have never witness anyone ever using it, must be one of those behind closed doors kind of features.
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Originally Posted by Relic
Why is that so bad?
Should be done since they acquired SIRI. Also, should be predictive by now.
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And two of the people Apple should get to manage the tech in this speech recognition team are Drs. James and Janet Baker. They invented the tech that Siri uses, but were swindled out of their company, Dragon Systems, and the IP was acquired by Nuance, who've not done much but market it. Dr. & Dr. Baker did try to regain some of the IP that was their life-work, through a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, but... you guessed it... the bankers won. Would be really great to see Apple cut them back in to their own work, somehow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and-a-sale-gone-horribly-awry.html?pagewanted=all
Wow, that is an astonishing report. Goldman Sachs getting money for delivering old rope - how disgusting. This is a story of two innovative entrepreneurial people, taking risks, working long hours, developing a company that employed 400 employees; only to be thrown on the rubbish heap, treated derisively and cavalierly by Goldman Sachs, a company which we're supposed to respect for its financial acumen? With antics like that, 'Wall Street', at least Goldman, deserves all the vitriol it gets.
You will really like iOS 7.
Apple has a very strong speech recognition team but apparently everyone was willing to relocate to California. In 2011 Apple recruited a very senior level specialist in the field who didn't want to move to California. When people of sufficient caliber don't want to move then even companies like Apple make concessions.
TL;DR: Apple began building this team at least two years ago.
Did someone really suggest that Apple should have predictive speech recognition? WTF is that?
Nope. SIRI, not speech recognition. Sorry for being a little off topic.
It would be like this....
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16528-innovation-speech-prediction-software.html#.UfT_9NLUn4Q