[maemo-developers] One question about speech2text poor performance

[From: Mike Klein]

History lesson: 1Mhz Apple][ had >90% voice recognition 
ability...program was written by Bill Budge I believe.

The resources have to be there.


mike

Marco Solari wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a question about the voice recognition problem on the Nokia platform,
> hoping it's not too off-topic...
> I see on this platform some voice recognition tool is available, but it's
> extremely resource demanding, slow and performs with quite a low success
> percentage... I'm asking myself how comes today quite every low-end phone is
> capable to recognize uttered names by a not-trained user, with 90% success
> rate (I would estimate); I believe Nokia platform sports quite higher
> hardware (CPU/RAM) than thos pohones...
> The question is: is the task of recognizing a small set of utterances
> basically different from the task of recognizing spoken words out of a
> bigger dictionary (I limit the problem to single words, not considering the
> spoken speech...), or the commercial phones name-recognition software is
> really more advanced than open source tools we use ?
> Thanks in advance for your attention.
>
> Marco Solari
>
>
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