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Google Adds Speech To Newly Stable Chrome 11, Pays Big Bounty
CWmike writes "Google patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome on Wednesday as it boosted the stable build of the browser to version 11 on Windows, Mac and Linux. The company paid out a record $16,500 in bounties to researchers who reported a majority of the bugs, beating the previous biggest payday by several hundred dollars. While Google listed more than 3,700 changes in Chrome 11, the only one it highlighted was the speech input feature. The combination of Chrome and Google Translate isn't flawless. In several quick tests by Computerworld, the browser and service transcribed most phrases accurately, but in one instance heard 'Good morning, sister ship' when the line was actually 'Good morning, Mr. Smith.'"
Seems that maybe they should have programmed it in Lisp?
Thanks, I'm here all week!
I say don't drink and drive, you might spill your drink. Before you get behind the wheel just stop and think.
Sister Ship is a much cooler band name than Mr. Smith.
Now it goes to 11.
I sure hope they don't have armadillos in their trousers.
Their *net* income is close to $2,000,000,000. per quarter (every 3 months).
Ya, it's much more efficient to just have all your ram sitting around doing nothing all the time.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Opera has had a similar feature for years now
inb4 "OMG already version 11?! It's not even been two months since version 10! They really are rushing versions now herp derp"
Computer: open slashdot.org Computer: read first article I think we have found a better User Interface replacement for Slashdot 3.0
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov
There's absolutely no way no way I tell you to use a hook for a specially delivered payload to turn that ol Microphone on when you didn't know it!
No doubt...if programs would actually load themselves completely into RAM, you'd see an overall performance increase AND battery life would improve. It's apps that are constantly writing out to disk and hogging the CPU that drain battery life.
:q!
Does it work like this yet?
1) Submit code under a fake identity to an open-source project that pays a bounty on security vulnerabilities. (Are any OSS contributors vetted?)
2) "Discover" the flaw(s) in your code and report it.
3) ???
4) Profit
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Did they fix the bug that makes the bookmarks suck? You know, the one that makes you choose between the incredibly clunky bookmarks sidebar or the waste of space that is a bookmarks toolbar.
No?
I'll wait for Chrome 12 and hope they've fixed it by then.
Bookmarks are probably the best example of a drop down menu usage - a menu you occasionally want, and once you make a selection, it goes away.
I've seen so many people try Chrome and delete it because of it's stubborn idiocy in handling one of the most commonly used functions in a web browser.
This sentence no verb.
"Are you sure you wanna leave this page?"
Yes! Why the fuck can't I disable that crap?
Shitty browser. And you still can't zoom the font size, only the whole damn page as an image.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
That's funny, because I am currently switching my users from FF to Dragon (Chromium based) as the latest FF seems to slam the CPU too much for my taste. All of my users and myself have plenty of RAM, but slamming the CPU isn't good, especially for the nettops and netbooks. Certainly a lot easier to add a RAM stick than to yank out the CPU on some of the lower end power sippers.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Does your OS do multitasking? Mine does. Or have swap space? Mine has, and I'd rather have my RAM available for multiple programs and my hard drive not slowing everything down from constant swapping.
I have no idea how can google release a set of bugfixes and update the major version.
And when are they going to:
1. Allow stopping animated GIFs or make them play once. Makes my laptop drain much faster than firefox.
2. Fix tonnes of memory leaks which make it eat 2GiG of RAM with only few tabs open. Makes my system crawl because it goes low on memory.
You can search issues page to get more info on these issues.
Every time I install chrome and use it, I end up uninstalling it.
I dunno, Obama's actually been parading GE around as the model corporation, so the other corporations can learn to do things the same way. Maybe he has a lot invested in overseas stocks (I know I do :P )
But really, the majority of the US budget is split roughly in half between defense and entitlements, which pretty much follows the model of the ancient Roman empire, where they pretty much used their military force to make the rest of the known world work to support Roman citizens. Living on welfare here still seems to beat the heck out of working in a developing nation. But the cost of living is too high, so no point in investing domestically.
Lots of people just love tabs in web browsers, but not everyone.
I tend to avoid Chrome for the simple reason that it forces me to use tabs.
But apparently while every other browser includes the ability to disable tabs, the developers of Chrome consider forcing you to use them to be a feature.
Now I'm sure that I'll get a whole lot of posts in response to this telling me what MY preferences "should" be. If you're tempted to make such a post, stop and think for a moment. Personal preferences are entirely subjective. I like Pink Floyd, I don't much care for country music. Meanwhile someone else might have the exact opposite preference structure. Which of us is right? Both Which of us is wrong? Neither. The same is true of anything that is entirely a personal preference, including the use of tabs. I've heard all the arguments (including the really bad ones) for why I should alter my preferences, but none have been convincing. I don't like tabs, end of story. Those people who do like them are free to use them. All I ask is the freedom to not have them shoved down my throat.
If google wants those of us who don't like tabs to use chrome then they'll have to include functionality to disable tabs. Otherwise I'm sticking to firefox and/or opera.
Lots of people just love tabs in web browsers, but not everyone.
I'll bet your mouse only has one button, too.
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it's because you're a fag and chrome has detected that.
go suck a dick, pony loaf.
Wonder if they have fixed their flash implementation so that it stops randomly turning that part of a web page into a window through to applications/windows behind Chrome.... This is my biggest problem with the browser on OS X, and I wish I could find a way to reproduce it reliably.
I love that Firefox can open links in both new tabs and windows. I also love that it's possible to move tabs between windows.
Much more manageable to have 3+ windows with 10 tabs each instead of 1 window with 30+ tabs.
Can chrome do this?
Yes.
Thanks. The 'original' AC made it sound like you had to use tabs for some reason, like not being able to open things in new windows or something.
Emacs is at 23, with 24 in beta... and comes bundled with a text editor and an operating system. Still some way to go, Google !
I was wondering what speech recognition engine they were using. So I dug around a bit. At first glance, it appears they record some speech, convert it to flac, and then send the speech off to google servers to do the actual transcription.
There are some interesting privacy implications for this new feature, if it is indeed sending all of your speech to a server.
Does anyone have a clearer picture of how it works and/or what engine google is using?
It's hilarious, and gives the world gems like 'Steven Magnet'.
Is this the version where they finally, FINALLY, implement Print Preview?
Speech input? Is anyone going to use this? Still no way to customize the address bar btw.
Lots of people just love tabs in web browsers, but not everyone.
I'll bet your mouse only has one button, too.
I use a Mac, you insensitive clod!
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
1 of the features of google translate that uses android mostest utility to listen to that accept just translated in audio form to play in audio version of translate text we use the speech synthesizer the computer algorithms that converts texting to speech today we apple on this new speech synthesizer voices
This is the first paragraph from the article linked in the link, translated through me saying it in the mic.
I must say, I didn't expect it to come up with Android and Apple when the original paragraph never contained those words.
I am not devoid of humor.
Last week, I tried to use Voice Dial on my Android Phone to call my mother. Instead of calling her, it did a search for the words that it heard, and somehow ended up calling the county jail. I couldn't decide if it just misheard what I said (The words were nowhere close), or if Google tracked her location and she had some explaining to do.