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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."
We're not even done with Bubble 2.0 yet!
What?
No.
Their service says that they keep user supplied data in house. They do not.
Their service says that they use advanced technological means to do the transcription. They do not.
How on earth do you take that to mean 'their service does what it says'?
You are wrong.
Human transcription performed on industrial scale by non-native speakers is nothing new. For example, medical imaging texts are typed up by Cheap Foreign Labour from voice messages recorded by doctors. ;)
So remember this next time you read the analysis of your expensive MRI test.
every problem looks like a nail.
When all you have is six billion, renewable fueled, autonomous, self replicating, self housing, self programing, hundred billion node neural networks...
who the fuck needs an AI for voice recognition?
Losing your job to Bender: technological progress.
Losing your job to Apu: outrage.
But really, what's the difference? A service is a service. It's all progress .. sort of.
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A brain comes from moron woman even if it has the IQ of a contraceptive sponge.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
Where are we as a species, if making babies is a fetish?
"The Adobe Updater must update itself before it can check for updates. Would you like to update the Adobe Updater now?"
From a purely evolutionary point of view? We're quite sane, if you ask me. If the idea of impregnating your woman gives you a boner, I'd say it's about as close to the original idea behind sex as it can be.
Don't tell anyone but, hey, getting her pregnant was the idea behind fucking. I know, it kinda changed in the meantime, but originally, that was the plan.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Speech 3.0: 50% more hype.
Seriously. I'm just waiting for "Web 3.0. For everyone that got fed up with Web 2.0 and wants more of everything."
Web 2.0 was "You make the content, we make the profit".
Web 3.0 will be "We also make you host the content through P2P, and we'd launch it, we haven't figured out how to make profit of it, though".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I don't quite see how you can blame this on Evangelics, whether they're real Evangelics or just by name.
The cause of economic downfall is almost always plain greed.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
Uhh... Somehow I got confused about who said what - disregard above post or mod it down into obscurity where it belongs...
I think it's more likely that these people speak better, more grammatically correct English than the average Brit or American.
Since when has the average person spoken grammatically correct British/American English? What about slang, regional vocabulary, accents?
I think it'd be hard for a native speaker to translate in a lot of cases e.g. north/south in the UK.