Nuance Bringing Voice Recognition to Televisions and Intel Ultrabooks

[The Phazer]

Oh good. Now a plethora of other devices can be as poor and unreliable as Siri is.

We are 20+ years from voice recognition being reliable enough for significant use. At least. It's not the immediate future any more than touch screens were on the Newton.

Phazer

 

[AidenShaw]

So you think that they just started development on this since Siri was released?

You could have stopped after the first three words, and you know the answer....

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Oh good. Now a plethora of other devices can be as poor and unreliable as Siri is.

We are 20+ years from voice recognition being reliable enough for significant use. At least. It's not the immediate future any more than touch screens were on the Newton.

Phazer

Ah....

 

[Digitalclips]

There are instances where speech control is not faster, and this is one of them. What's quicker, hitting the pause button, or hitting another button to activate voice control (much like you do with Siri) and then telling it to pause?

No thanks, I'll stick with my remote.

So you picked one of a few examples where voice might not be quicker. Well done. I bet being able to say, "the second last episode of season three star trek voyager" would be cool and take longer pressing arrows on a remote though!

 

[Analog Kid]

Here's one problem I'm already sensing: excessive hype. Reading what people think this TV is going to do should make any consumer electronics company pause-- there's no way they're going to live up to expectations.

I'm a big fan of Siri, largely because it exceeded my expectations. It's still rough, and I rarely use it because it rarely can do what I need it to (why, oh why, can't it access hours of operations on businesses? I don't care how many restaurants are near me if they're all closed!), but it's a clear step down the right path.

Because this TV thing is getting so much hype in the media, people are already infusing it with magical abilities-- and when it doesn't live up to those expectations it will be deemed a failure.

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There are instances where speech control is not faster, and this is one of them. What's quicker, hitting the pause button, or hitting another button to activate voice control (much like you do with Siri) and then telling it to pause?

No thanks, I'll stick with my remote.

Saying "pause" is definitely faster than finding the remote to push any sort of button. The only reason Siri doesn't listen continuously is to save power and prevent strangers on the subway from commanding your phone.

Basic controls make more sense to me than all these ideas about "play the least recent, non Star Trek movie with Patrick Stewart where he's wearing a blue shirt" that strike me as gimmicky...

 

[wrinkster22]

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If any ultra book gets voice recognition, my 2011 macbook air better get it.

Agreed. If I get screwed...
Well bad things will happen

 

[AppleScruff1]

You could have stopped after the first three words, and you know the answer....

I guess that would be correct.

 

[thenerdal]

Nuance just released Dragon Go! for Android for free a few minutes ago.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/nuance-dragon-go-android/

AWESOME!

 

[Winni]

As usual, Apple leads others follow ...

That was a good one. Haha. Thanks for the laugh. Remember the 1990s? Even IBM OS/2 Warp had voice recognition built into the operating system. Ever heard of Android? It's that mobile phone platform that had voice recognition years before iOS - and it even had free voice assistants -with- avatars.
Sure. Apple leads the way. Hmmm.

 

[samcraig]

I find it humorous that some people on here simply can't acknowledge when other companies have successes that aren't tied to Apple somehow. It always has to be Apple doing it better, doing it first, etc. Apple is a great company - but they aren't the only successful one.

 

[linuxcooldude]

Again - they didn't just "whip" up this idea since the book came out

It would be nieve for me to think they would wait to release this after somebody else does.

I find it humorous that some people on here simply can't acknowledge when other companies have successes that aren't tied to Apple somehow. It always has to be Apple doing it better, doing it first, etc. Apple is a great company - but they aren't the only successful one.

As someone has pointed out. It was great 10 years ago. But what have they really done until now to advance it to the next level?

 

[samcraig]

It would be nieve for me to think they would wait to release this after somebody else does.



As someone has pointed out. It was great 10 years ago. But what have they really done until now to advance it to the next level?

You seem to think I was ONLY talking about Nuance when I made that statement.

But re: Nuance - you have no idea what they have or have not done to improve their product. You're going on hearsay from another poster. And that poster was referring to Nuance's phone systems.

But by all means - perpetuate someone's post as fact as not opinion...

 

[linuxcooldude]

You seem to think I was ONLY talking about Nuance when I made that statement.

But re: Nuance - you have no idea what they have or have not done to improve their product. You're going on hearsay from another poster. And that poster was referring to Nuance's phone systems.

But by all means - perpetuate someone's post as fact as not opinion...

Its something that can be applied to a lot of companies. Actually, I thought it was quite a perceptive opinion on his part.