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by robg 4714 days ago
Voice-only is the hardest HCI problem left. Just consider the challenge as an English speaker, with 18 years of experience, of traveling from Alabama to New York to London and Wales and Scotland and Ireland to Mumbai and Kerala to Cairns and Sidney and Auckland.
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alxbrun 4714 days ago
True, but in the case of Glass the speaker is always the same (it's the owner) so you can learn and adapt the acoustic model over time. I'm wondering btw if Google doesn't do that already for Android's built-in speech recognition, which accuracy is amazing.

The other problem is that apps cannot (at least for now) change the language model, so Glass will always be in either "search" or "dictation" mode.

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CamperBob2 4714 days ago
Voice-only is the hardest HCI problem left.

Wouldn't the hardest HCI problem be a direct cortical interface?

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