dunno about you lot but im finding the g voice rec stuff is getting very very good. dunno if ill use it on the dt but its frickin good on mobe (are we still allowed to say mobe?)
now i can email AND drive.. at last !
Google has developed a Chrome plugin to allow desktop users to activate the browser's voice-controlled web search feature just by saying "OK, Google". The advertising giant said the "hotword" will start a Google search without any clicking or typing in of queries required. Users just have to say "OK Google" followed by a …
I don't want to email whilst driving, but occasionally I do have ideas ( or remember some item I need to get from town) when behind the wheel, and a Dictaphone of sorts would be nice. If it isn't a standalone button on the dashboard, then a voice activated system would be fine - I wouldn't want to be fumbling with my phone.
okay..more than that actually. imagine this is an open plan office environment....could be easily used for NSFW searches being done on others systems 'ok google goatse' - or just craziness as your PC picks up other peoples voice commands. either way...a way to spend a lunch hour or two frivolously.
I would imagine that the plug-in is listening continuously, and is able to recognise 'OK Google' itself locally. After that it sends your voice sample to Google's servers.
Sending everything your microphone picks up to Google's servers (when 99.9% of the time it is useless) isn't a very good use of their resources.
Android phones can do speech-to-text locally if required, it's just that the results aren't accurate as when it's done server side.
I don't think that's the point. If you ever, for whatever reason, become a 'person of interest' everything you say will be stored, analyzed, and potentially used against you, one way or another, with very little judiciary oversight and no regards whatsoever for your rights. And with this gizmo, the spooks can do it on the cheap, a single implementation for all devices (being a browser app) and a single point of entry (Google's servers, which, as any fule knows, can be accessed and totally controlled by the NSA at the drop of a hat).