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Microsoft Debuts Customizable Speech-To-Text Tech, Releases Some Cognitive Services Tools To Developers (geekwire.com)
Microsoft is readying three of its 25 Cognitive Services tools for wider release to developers. From a report on GeekWire: Microsoft's AI and Research Group, a major new engineering and research division formed last year inside the Redmond company, is debuting a new technology that lets developers customize Microsoft's speech-to-text engine for use in their own apps and online services. The new Custom Speech Service is set for release today as a public preview. Microsoft says it lets developers upload a unique vocabulary -- such as alien names in Human Interact's VR game Starship Commander -- to produce a sophisticated language model for recognizing voice commands and other speech from users. It's the latest in a series of "cognitive services" from Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, a 5,000-person division led by Microsoft Research chief Harry Shum. The company says it has expanded from four to 25 cognitive services in the last two years, including 19 in preview and six that are generally available.
Or will it have to be trained?
... Hey we need some more money fast! What do you guys can come up with?
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Now I can have my own Microsoft-powered racist AI? Woo hoo!
Microsoft *Research* is by no means a piece of shit.
Look, I'm about ready to throw a chair over the wall at the guy next to me who talks using is outside voice on the phone ALL THE TIME. Cripes, he's got his phone on speaker phone most of that time.
Nobody wants or cares about speech to text. It makes a nice little movie gimmick so Scotty can say "Hello Computer"
I guess this will be full of spyware/telemetry.
If it's Microsoft, it's bad! It's probably EEE, or anti-competitive or something that I'd be fine with any other company doing, but because it's M$ it's EVIL!!1
Unless it lets me configure it to talk to me like Joe Pesci or Gordon Ramsey, I'm not interested.
I want a GPS that tells me "You missed the turn, you F**king disgrace", but will settle for sending similar messages to friends.
Well now all the closed caption transcribers for the deaf will be unemployed.
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Monkeyshit Corp is indeed a piece of shit.
Smelly indo-chimps in their "research" are scamsters and frauds with phony PhD degrees straight out of smelly indian jungles.
So, basically, a way to automatically transcribe everything that Cortana is listening to every second your computer is powered on, to make spying on Windows users that much easier? I wonder, do they use all that stolen private data just for 'marketing' purposes, or are they selling it to the three-letter government agencies, too (or just giving it to them for free)?
Eat shit and die, Miscreant-o-soft. Shove your fucking surveillance platform up your big fat ass.
it is anachronistic to have to go through messages 1,2, and 3 when message 4 is the only message that matters (ETA of flight 123 from Orlando, for example). Let's take voicemail to the next phase: I want to view messages-at-a-glance, scan through them I never will have to sit through some damn robocall just to get to message number 9.
How about it, Mr. Research scientist? Today's voicemail will never catch on because we never took it out of its twentieth century implementation
. . . will we hear a blue SCREAM of death?
That sounds awfully like my strategy for temporarily restoring connectivity when my Virgin Mobile (which uses the Sprint network) has lousy connectivity. The T-Mobile/MetroPCS network had better connectivity for the location I'm referring to, but MetroPCS customer service is substantially worse.
I've noticed how current Microsoft offerings bear quite some resemblance to those earlier assistant offerings but they determined that the "cute" animated creature was "annoying". So, get rid of it, job done!
Wilhelm, of course! https://www.bing.com/search?q=...