Comments on: A hypothetical path to the Speakularity http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6498 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nathan Gibbs http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6498/comment-page-1#comment-21006 Nathan Gibbs Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:31:21 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6498#comment-21006 The most likely venue for the rise of the Speakularity will be through YouTube. Users can upload transcripts for their own videos. The text is then synced to appear when spoken in the video. If Google is "listening" and training its speech recognition engine with this accurate text input, it could be in a position to develop the best speech recognition we've ever seen. You should contact SESConferenceExpo on YouTube and send them that transcript :) The most likely venue for the rise of the Speakularity will be through YouTube. Users can upload transcripts for their own videos. The text is then synced to appear when spoken in the video. If Google is “listening” and training its speech recognition engine with this accurate text input, it could be in a position to develop the best speech recognition we’ve ever seen.

You should contact SESConferenceExpo on YouTube and send them that transcript :)

]]> By: Tim Carmody http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6498/comment-page-1#comment-18734 Tim Carmody Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:40:38 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6498#comment-18734 This is actually a little bit what I mean when I say it's an always-retreating thing. Asymptotic. And our thresholds for technology failures in this field are surprisingly low. This is actually a little bit what I mean when I say it’s an always-retreating thing. Asymptotic. And our thresholds for technology failures in this field are surprisingly low.

]]> By: Robin Sloan http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6498/comment-page-1#comment-18724 Robin Sloan Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:20:06 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6498#comment-18724 (I love this.) (I love this.)

]]> By: Matt P http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6498/comment-page-1#comment-18681 Matt P Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:51:07 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6498#comment-18681 I'll go ahead and predict that when it happens, the Speakularity will be fantastic and awesome for about a week. Maybe less. Then everyone will start to notice the problems with auto-magic transcription - "It doesn't preserve context! Emotional tone is lost! What about privacy? It doesn't work for some dialects, and therefore is racist!" - and we'll be back to the default Internet Position, a cross between outward cynicism and inward marvel. And that is when <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/speechmadevis/" rel="nofollow">my secret plans will come to fruition</a>. I’ll go ahead and predict that when it happens, the Speakularity will be fantastic and awesome for about a week. Maybe less. Then everyone will start to notice the problems with auto-magic transcription — “It doesn’t preserve context! Emotional tone is lost! What about privacy? It doesn’t work for some dialects, and therefore is racist!” — and we’ll be back to the default Internet Position, a cross between outward cynicism and inward marvel.

And that is when my secret plans will come to fruition.

]]> By: Adam http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6498/comment-page-1#comment-18421 Adam Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:04:00 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6498#comment-18421 On the plus side, Platforms To Laos has potential as a SE Asian zeppelin novel. Or perhaps, more appropriately, an animation short, uploaded to YouTube, annotated with scene and character tags, and with user-contributed partial transcriptions in seventeen languages, including English. On the plus side, Platforms To Laos has potential as a SE Asian zeppelin novel. Or perhaps, more appropriately, an animation short, uploaded to YouTube, annotated with scene and character tags, and with user-contributed partial transcriptions in seventeen languages, including English.

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