April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC7/29/17 7:39 PM |
Speech recognition...
1) Chinese, on iPhone; GREAT!
2) English, on iPhone; Not quite, but "almost" usable. Just as slow as typing on the tiny phone keyboard with the hassle of correcting all the mistakes.
3) Microsoft Windows, English; Complete waste of time!!!
1)
Typing Chinese is quite a drag. Especially for those of us who only does it occasionally. Doing that on a tiny phone screen is pour torture.
So, when I was traveling in China, and had to communicate with my high school friends by text/e-mail, I took a brave step to use the speech recognition in my iPhone. Surprise, surprise!
Or I should say I'm really, really impressed! It does a pretty good job of "recognizing" what I was speaking and turns them into writing. Boy, that was quick!
2)
So I started using the speech recognition when I need to text my English speaking friends. Although I typically get "mostly" of what I said, it' often has mistakes in EVERY sentences. Sometimes got so far off that it's not even funny. Still, I use it. It's handy when I'm driving, for example. I don't have the time to correct the mistakes. I just let them be.
3)
It's only natural that I try to use it on the computer. But here, it completely failed. My test sentence was "testing, testing". I got "nothing"! "Nothing" in two ways. First, it's temperamental whether the microphone even picks up my speech. Then, when it did, it "recognize" what I said as "nothing"!!!
Any of you use speech recognition in any situation? How's your experience?
Sandiway?
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