Re: Apple and Google should talk voice recognition on iPhone
Just so it’s clear, I do know that Google does the voice recognition on the server. But there’s a difference between trying to recognise every single word you speak correctly and trying to match what you spoke with the entries in your contacts list. I’m pretty sure the latter is much easier to do than the former and would yield more accurate results.
You might think so, but fundamentally recognizing phonemes is recognizing phonemes. Translating text into phonemes is actually harder with proper names.
People talk about the UI of cut-and-paste because the functionality is easy, the interaction can be done many ways. Speech recognition is the UI, it's the functionality that makes it hard. Notice how little it is used in Mac OS X. I can't even do what you ask on my laptop.
As another example, Say Who uses "powerful speech recognition technology that requires more processing power than the phone can handle." It uploads contact names and searches against them on a server.
I'm pretty sure it's not the interface that is holding voice dialing up.
