Brutkey

Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ
@baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run Which explains why Apple Siri, introduced in 2011 and pushed relentlessly since, is only useful for setting a timer when I’m cooking.

Everything else, EVERYTHING, I've tried on it is too painful to repeat.

Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop

@baoigheallain@mastodon.ie @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run Unfair to Siri! It's perfectly adequate for cueing up Apple Music playlists on a Homepod while I'm in the bath-gets it won't less than 20% of the time! Behold the white-hot power of modern technology!

@stevewfolds
@stevewfolds@mastodon.world

@cstross@wandering.shop @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run
IBM was working on speech recognition in 1961.
https://www.ibm.com/history/voice-recognition

Jeff Grigg
@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social

@stevewfolds@mastodon.world @cstross@wandering.shop @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run

I was using useful speech recognition systems from Kurzweil in the early 1980s.

Later advancements were to be tolerant of multiple speakers, and to work over the telephone.

But even today's systems still have problems and limitations.

Some humor on that point:
"Scottish Elevator - Voice Recognition - ELEVEN !"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8&ab_channel=NoelN