Baidu's Voice Recognition Software Is More Accurate Than Typing (thestack.com)

The massive Chinese web services company Baidu has launched their sophisticated new TalkType 'keyboard' which defaults to voice recognition app. An anonymous reader quotes The Stack: Baidu claims that the app's speech recognition is more accurate than actual typing, having developed and tested the technology alongside speech software experts at Stanford University...The researchers concluded that Baidu's technology was three times faster than a typical user typing in English. The results showed that the TalkType error rate was 20.4% lower than an English texter hunting and tapping for letters. The accuracy was even greater for those typing in Mandarin, with the error rate dropping 63.4% when using TalkType.
Of course, last year Baidu was also accused of gaming the testing for their image-recognition software.

Comments

Leads to hunt-n-smash

[fyngyrz]

Another thing -- when I'm typing, and there is an error, I'm right there to correct it.

With voice recog, at least right now, editing it after it's been screwed up by Google or whatever is more of a PITA than just typing it out in the first place.

Trying to actually do decent editing (at least on my S7) is seriously annoying. Cursor positioning is flaky as hell, parts of messages disappear above and blow the edit point, I try to drag the edit point and it scrolls up or down so fast there's no chance of actually getting where I meant to go...

I grant you that this kind of thing is the result of bad design at some level in Android or some library most everyone is using, and could be corrected... but right now, it's SN/AFU. That's a big factor in why editing as I go, rather than trying to get "somewhere" in something already containing lots of text, is much easier on my temper.

That said, I would welcome 99.99999% accurate voice recog. Not holding my breath, though.