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'Dragon Dictation' Brings Voice Transcription to the iPhone
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http://www.facebook.com/notes/dragonmobileapps/what-dragon-dictation-for-the-iphone-does-and-doesnt-do-with-your-contacts/224896880751
This might help some.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/dragonmobileapps/what-dragon-dictation-for-the-iphone-does-and-doesnt-do-with-your-contacts/224896880751
This might help some.
Anybody have a clue as to the maximum time for each dictation session? I know you can string them together, but is each one 30 seconds maximum? Two minutes? I don't see the actual time on the itunes link or on their Web site. Strange that they don't include this, assuming there is a limit...
Linked:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/drago...and-doesnt-do-with-your-contacts/224896880751
I think its PAINFULLY obvious why they do this. Before reading their explanation, I also thought it would be obvious that articles (like the one on MacRumors) should explicitly state that the app uploads the "NAMES OF YOUR CONTACTS, BUT NOTHING ELSE". People apparently think Dragon is duping a copy of their addressbook and getting ready to spam SMS and Email services. It's ironic that Apple put the breaks on Google Voice for uploading MORE than just the NAMES of someone's contacts... and people haven't really said anything about it except... "Where's my Google Voice"?
Could the article be edited to change this...
To this?
~ CB
slightly off-topic, or rather on-topic but not specifically about this app:
i do not think it's a question of how important one sees oneself. it is more an issue of "do i want people (companies, governments etc) to collect info about me? why do they do this? what will they do with the info?"
i find it interesting to see many young people posting their data on the web without a care (home addresses, phone numbers, address books, etc) and i can understand that they see no harm in it. but for those who have lived in other systems and/or other times, it is a very sensitive issue. believe me: after growing up in a totalitarian state and knowing that every private meeting, every conversation was being noted, and records kept about who you were communicating with... i understand people not wanting their private data uploaded to a faceless company's computers. they promise not to pass it on, but you can no longer control this. people in many countries have ended up in jail and concentration camps because of these records of their activity.
no i am NOT saying this app is dangerous, and happily most of us are not living in totalitarian states, but caution is healthy. times change, systems change, presidents change, companies get sold and bought - along with their records.
best regards
B
Server? No way. They just have rows and rows of typists listening to our uploaded dictations then typing them back to us. Yep. Uh-uh. I'm telling you. Remember where you heard it first.
Seriously, though.
This is really cool.
Near-perfect.
And I have an accent!
Are we sure they're not a bunch of typists?
Seriously, though.
This is really cool.
Near-perfect.
And I have an accent!
Are we sure they're not a bunch of typists?
Nope.
Now, I must hurry up and leave this thread before my contacts get uploaded to some server because I am thinking about installing this app.
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Lmao.
slu said:
Nope.
Now, I must hurry up and leave this thread before my contacts get uploaded to some server because I am thinking about installing this app.
Lmao.
Dragon Search? The Google App already does voice search. But hey, competition is a good thing and hopefully it will drive both companies to improve upon their current technology.
I like to think we are all important.
I think the concern of storing our contact info has more to do with numerous major databases that have been hacked over the past few years and masses of personal and credit card info stolen. Yes, I know this is not credit card info, but people are very skeptical these days of their contact info being stored on a database.
That might be because when you email something, you email it from inside the application. The app uses separate servers to process the recordings, so the contacts might be connected to it...
When you are correcting someone, it is usually better to be correct yourself, rather than "correcting" someone with incorrect information
Everywhere I learned English, you put a comma before the person's name if you're speaking directly to them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutation_(greeting)#English
(But sure, meeting someone in the street we'd probably shout "Hi, John!" with a comma in the middle. But I'm pretty sure the text in the sample is a letter, not someone shouting to a friend.)
Yeah try saying naughty words. It censors you. FAIL for censorship
Yeah, it's a good thing Apple doesn't censor stuff in the app store.
All FUD aside, this application is working surprisingly well.
Just test it with some coworkers with accents (Mexican, Russian, Romanian, Chinese and Korean).
Worked 90% for them and 99% for me (American).
Just test it with some coworkers with accents (Mexican, Russian, Romanian, Chinese and Korean).
Worked 90% for them and 99% for me (American).
At least you Canadians have been able to watch the latest Trailer Park Boys movie. Still waiting for that in the USA.
nice learning tool for kids
I put this on my daughter's phone.
she said, "grandpa"
the phone wrote, "my job"
she said, "daddy, it says 'my job'"
I said, "since when can you read???!!!"
she spent the next half hour trying to speak more clearly to it so that it would write what she wanted it to write, and trying to read what the phone thought she said.
I likey!
I put this on my daughter's phone.
she said, "grandpa"
the phone wrote, "my job"
she said, "daddy, it says 'my job'"
I said, "since when can you read???!!!"
she spent the next half hour trying to speak more clearly to it so that it would write what she wanted it to write, and trying to read what the phone thought she said.
I likey!
So tell us how it actually is, dude. I just chose the parts that made me and others concerned. It's not like I misquoted the thing. I don't put a whole book in a footnote either.
The EULA does mention using the Speech Data to improve speech recognition, but also "other components of the Service," not defined. And it's not just names they appropriate, it's your voice files, transcriptions, and data logs.
I'm just sayin' that it's easy to get carried away with a new gizmo, but in these digital days it's important to be particularly careful about who gets access the details of your life. I pay with PayPal whenever I can b/c I want as few entities as possible to have my financial info. I also shred credit card offers, even though no one's probably going through my trash and it'd need my signature even if they did. Maybe I'm overcautious, but the gee-whiz factor doesn't make it worth it for what most people will use this for, imo.
Needs a pause button, rather than stopping and sending to the server once you hit the stop button. I didn't find it to be terribly accurate, even when I took extra steps to enunciate my words.
Google Voice- exactly. Where's my Latitude?
Sole purpose of Google Voice and all other free services is for collecting personal data and tracking activity. Period. People think Google just offers these services for free because it wants to be charitable? And while all other companies can charge a hefty price for navigation services and voice transcription, Google decides to just give it away? Google states it logs activity, it knows everyone who called you and when, what they said in voice mail, and because they offer free transcription, it means Google has text of calls/voicemail, and will mine it for what was said. Google's strategic objective to collect, track, and understand users to fullest extent possible.
Is that bad? Not necessarily. Ads are more relevant making them less annoying. User data will help develop search algorithms that think like humans. And so on. Will Google keep personal info safe? Given how much it spends to collect personal data which gives Google a massive advantage in search, Google will not want it to fall in other's hands. Google latitude and navigation- same thing.
Funny how people go up in arms over NAMES being sent to a firm's server that has no other use/value than enhancing its service/product from which it makes money. Data sent to Nuances servers are non-identifiable because it's linked to a random number serving as an anonymous profile. Of the names, Nuance can't even tell which is the owner's.