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SpinVox "Recognition" Is Often Expensive Human Transcription
An anonymous reader writes "SpinVox offers to convert voice messages to text using a system called D2 or 'the Brain.' According to BBC News, said 'Brain' is often of the old-fashioned kind: SpinVox is sending private voice messages to South Africa, the Philippines, and maybe Egypt to be typed by people in a call centre, despite being registered as keeping all private data inside Europe and claiming that the text is somehow anonymised. Insiders say they transcribed 'love messages, secret messages' and everything else from beginning to end, and the company is being bled dry by the cost: SpinVox has been locked out of one of their data centers over a payment dispute. SpinVox refuses to comment further on details — but according to their web page, they're 'enabling the Speech 3.0, Voice 3.0, and Business 3.0 markets,' whatever that means."
Best algorithm, ever.
Now with 20% more vowels!
That's awful.
By the way I'm releasing a new text-to-speech service; the algorithm makes for a very smooth speech. It does however have a little bit of an accent.
From their PDF:
Speech 3.0: Fully-hosted, commercial strength SLAs, proven scale and reliability - no CapEx. Scales on demand to 150m capacity
So Speech 3.0 provides 150 meters of service-level agreements with no experience-point cap.
Voice 3.0: Superior and proven range of voice products. We repeatedly deliver great, mass-market experiences with our expertise in marketing and management of all lifecycle stages.
Voice 3.0 takes you from larva, through pupa, all the way to butterfly, and then you die and get eaten.
Business 3.0: Mature yet flexible business models - designed to adapt to the dynamics of service brands we partner with, from on-demand to full lifecycle revenue strategies
Business 3.0 is apparently a flexible business model where they interact with their partners. So that's new I guess, no one has thought of that yet. It's also where people who write marketing buzzwords go to die.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
>>>Human brains remain the only high performance computer manufactured with unskilled labour.
I object! It takes a lot of skill to satisfy today's demanding women. And what happens if you lack that skill? They'll just jump ship to some other guy's bed. Unskilled labor indeed. It takes a lot of skill to convince Miss Prissy to let her guard down, bribe her with a 50,000 dollar wedding, remove the diaphragm, and let you impregnate her.
No I'm not bitter.
Although I do have this gnawing pain in my gut until I can taste the bile rising up my throat and into my mouth. Well. Maybe I'm a little bitter. Or else I just have heartburn; anybody have a TicTac?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
That's nothing, I just bought an application that converts my speech to text. Read that back to me. I said, read that back to me. God damn it, what the hell is wrong with this thing. Stupid blinking light, what the hell is that supposed to mean? This is... oh here we go. No, don't send
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Okay, humans never screw up their speeck recognition, but that doesn't guarantee that the speeck is correctly transcribed.
bender does the job perfectly over and over for a lower cost.
Apu does a poor job, frequently making mistakes to the point he isn't cheaper in the long run.
THAT is where the outrage comes from.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Nobody has ever seen Bender work. Anyone who says he has done work is lying.
They're not native English-speakers. They are learning thousands of new words every week.
Vista file copy is O(w^2) where w is the amount of time a normal person is willing to wait for a file to copy.
*sigh* What happened to good ol' rape?
Ok, snide and tasteless comments aside. The only thing it takes a lot of is time. Women can get quite desperate when they hear their biological clock tick away. Unfortunately that happens after their best before date...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.