> > a standalone GPS has no network connection, period. Smartphone GPS apps > use the connection to help you avoid traffic and the likes.
That's exactly what he said Zisu Andrei On 27 June 2013 17:18, Josh Leverette <coder...@gmail.com> wrote: > a standalone GPS has no network connection, period. Smartphone GPS apps > use the connection to help you avoid traffic and the likes. Data itself is > not inherently evil, and can be very useful. Printing directions leaves > them with as much information as using a smartphone GPS. using a standalone > Garmin or TomTom is the only way to reasonably avoid handing that data over > to "the cloud", but I wouldn't concern yourself about the cloud too much > yet. > > Sincerely, > Josh > On Jun 27, 2013 8:27 AM, "Daniel Clem" <clem11...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Non-dev comment. >> >> I very very rarely ever use voice recognition, and never use dictation. I >> only use it on rare occasion when I can't remember how to spell a word, and >> my best guess has spell check all confused. Plus with all the NSA and other >> privacy issues coming up, I'm working harder than ever to keep and and all >> unnecessary data out of "the cloud”. >> >> These privacy issues are why a year and a half ago, I completely stopped >> all usage of GPS navigation the requires any kind of data connection. >> Printing directions is one thing, but having a server track and direct you >> movements all the way to your destination, is unacceptable in this day and >> age. >> >> I would use voice recognition, dictation, ect on a Ubuntu Touch device if >> I knew for sure all processing was done locally, I.e. on the device itself. >> Same goes for GPS nav. >> >> God Bless all your guy's/gal's work. >> >> Pete Woods <pete.wo...@canonical.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> The current system uses the open source library pocketsphinx ( >>> http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/) - I believe this is the current >>> "best" open source voice recognition tool. >>> >>> Unfortunately this library is not able to perform dictation with an >>> acceptable level of accuracy. I don't know of any open source voice tools >>> that are. >>> >>> It is applicable to "command and control" situations, like we use it for >>> in HUD. It can work with either >>> >>> - A language model. Built from a corpus of text, e.g. the Wall >>> Street Journal. This basically gives it information the probabilities >>> different words being together in speech. Theoretically this can be used >>> to >>> recognise more natural commands, but I found its accuracy to be very >>> poor. >>> - A finite state grammar - this is what we use in HUD. Basically >>> it's a simple state machine that defines the commands that we get from >>> the >>> various programs running. This has relatively high accuracy, but has the >>> limitation of only recognising a fixed set of inputs. >>> >>> It is worth noting that a considerable amount of effort was expended >>> training the acoustic model (the part that actually identifies what >>> phonemes the user is saying) that is used currently. It was trained against >>> the Voxforge international english audio corpus (http://voxforge.org/). >>> >>> Much of the academic work done in this area is funded by the likes of >>> Microsoft. In these situations a pretty strict "closed licence" is usually >>> applied. Unfortunately what this means practically, is that the only way >>> you'll get dictation at the moment is with a closed-source tool... >>> >>> I hope this information is useful! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Pete >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Zisu Andrei <matzi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I wrote a little something for this occasion: >>>> http://zisuandrei.webmonsters.ro/design-in-open-source-unity-and-dash/ >>>> there >>>> are some sections called "HUD" and "Dash" and "HUD voice interaction". Some >>>> of my propositions are obsolete after 3 months from writing, some are >>>> outright stupid, but bear with my article:D >>>> >>>> I tried desperately to get on the unity-design mailing list but it >>>> seems there is no one in charge of approving those mailing list acceptance >>>> requests (https://launchpad.net/~unity-design/+members#proposed 44 >>>> membership requests for over 3-4 months). If there is any Canonical >>>> employee that could help me with approving my membership for unity-design I >>>> would greatly appreciate it. >>>> >>>> Zisu Andrei >>>> >>>> >>>> On 27 June 2013 03:38, Josh Leverette <coder...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> there seems to be a basic system for voice recognition, designed to >>>>> control the currently open app based on a limited command vocabulary. I'm >>>>> curious if there are any plans for a Siri-like assistant, maybe for the >>>>> 14.04 release? and how accurate is the dictation software? is it good >>>>> enough for straight text composition like Joseph was talking about? I know >>>>> it's fully offline, which is a tremendous advantage and disadvantage over >>>>> the competition. >>>>> >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> Josh >>>>> On Jun 26, 2013 9:35 PM, "Joseph Bylund" <joseph.byl...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Has there been any discussion of voice recognition, both to compose >>>>>> texts/emails and to perform actions, like "open the music player"? 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