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Interesting historical perspective. Progress since the late '80 really seems to be fairly slow. ?: Do we need to wait for the singularity until speech recognition works without flaws?

"I thought I would give it a try on my android sexy seems to work pretty well and I'm speaking more less at normal speed" Actually I was speaking as fast as I could because it was for the google search input - if you make a pause it will think you finished your input and start the query. Also you might notice that Android thinks it is "android sexy" - this was meant to be "on my Android. THIS seems to work...". Still it is not too bad - maybe in a year or two they have it working. Of course it might also be that I just use the word "sexy" randomly... :-\

The problem is that we don't yet understand how speech in humans actually works. As long as we merely build either inference or statistical language models we'll never get perfect speech recognition. A lot of recognition in humans has a predictive/expectational basis to it that stems from our understanding of higher lvl concepts and context awareness. Sadly I suspect that as long as machines remain unembodied in their perceptual abilities their ability to either properly recognize sounds/speech or objects and other features will never reach perfection.

On Android speech recognition but also with a very nice video: direct translation of English voice input to Chinese audio. Looks like it might be really useful eventually.

Let's start the bets on how long it will take him to exterminate the crew!

encrypted phone calls on android and now also ios devices? here we go, from the programmer of PGP

For hardcore latex users (btw ... implemented in haskell ... classical machine learning app, but useful)

Also available as Android app (not sure if called "texify" or "detexify".

works actually quite well!!

this will be big! check the video. according to one of the related posts, they'll be on sale already by the end of 2012! Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this

> Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this It's sort of hard to think when your brain's gone.

if any of you happen to pass by North Korea, get me one of these ... probably the only tablet on the market with out an NSA backdoor - unfortunately it can't connect to the internet either ....

I am not so sure if its NSA backdoor proof (unless you mean no internet connection? :P), as it is build on Android OS (Ice Cream sandwich)

YAY!!