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I'm actually using the mobile app. And when I launch chat from there, it pops up an embedded safari browser overlaid over the app, which has even less functionality than if I went to chat in mobile safari directly
Ok, this is slightly better. I still can't see what I'm typing because of viewport issues, but at least I'm less likely to hit send prematurely. I know TPTB have decided the mobile app isn't worth add'l investment, but it would be nice if they added a lightweight chat interface. More than 90% of my site time is via the iOS app
@KitZ.Fox Electricity is going out all over Mongolia. Was that you?
@DanBron Blame goes somewhere but not necessarily to SE. I fond that the phone keyboard is easy to mash the wrong button, which might be the send button near the lower right ('n', 'm', space, and delete keys)
> The voice recognition system in the iPhone operates entirely on the basis of acoustic physics, not at all on linguistic phonetics. ... beware of imagining that it knows when you are saying something, or even what "saying something" means. The truth is that it cannot tell the difference between a labiodental fricative and an anal fricative. Let alone distinguish between when you're saying something sensible and when you're talking out of your ass.
that there is no need for concern from black hat hackers trying to take down our civilization by bit twiddling. Or rather viruses and trojans and hackers may well be a huge concern, but before that our greatest worries are about a cascade of niggling bugs, and 'technical debt', and easily aligned corner cases that will cause the entire Jenga tower to collapse
@KitZ.Fox Well, maybe, but that's not the problem here. The problem is that it heard a sound, thought you might be speaking to it, and didn't know that the sound wasn't speech, but then couldn't recognize what you said.
I mean, I've seen the same thing happen with humans. One human farts or sneezes or coughs and another human nearby says "pardon?"
The worst water utility disaster occurred the evening of Feb 29th, 1985 at 9:35pm EST after the series finale of the very popular MAS*H TV show, watched by more than 20 Million viewers. The supposed cause was all those millions flushing after waiting the whole show.
One of those tables says for a given population that for a given age what the expected number of years is. You know: age 70 - expected years til death 8; age 80 - 5, 85 - 3, 90 - 2.
How I read that is if I can only get one more year, it'll just keep going.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yes, totally. It's just that the manner of the mistakes (or misunderstanding due to interrupting noise) will be different because of the underlying mechanism
@Mitch will it though? It seems to me that in both cases the listener is hearing a sound that is in the acoustic range of speech, emanating from where it believes a speaker to be, but then the sound cannot be understood through any means because it sounds garbled.
I guess you could argue that if Siri's mic clearly hears the fart but has the same problem, then it's not the same issue - but again, is this because Siri can't process language? or because Siri's mic isn't as good as human ears?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It could very well be that the formant analysis of (particular) farts are indistinguishable from frcatives at given places of articulation.
@Mitch I think what the article is trying to say is that Siri should recognize that a fart is not words, but a fart. What I'm saying is that sometimes people hear a fart, don't recognize it as a fart or words, but think that maybe someone is trying to say something, and so they'll respond like Siri does.
I don't doubt that people may mistake farts as an attempt at a linguistic utterance.
But what I get from LL is that they're saying that STT isn't engineered to care ever (or to take context into account, real world or not). STT is not analysing speech according to linguistic principles (eg phonemes). It's just a function that takes input to output. And the mechanism to compute the output is not a human simulation.
feel somewhat uncomfortable having people following there
but goes with it
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 for example, if, say, Siri had phonemic processing, presumably it would be better with foreign accents and if not easier to fix by making it aware of sound change rules. But instead the only real fix is to have a labeled training corpus with more variety (people with other accents).
What is the best word to describe something positive that is hard to overlook or to ignore?
Example:
Her passion for dancing is ______ (hard to ignore)!
@tchrist Maybe the question is too broad by the too many possible answers definition, but "hard to ignore" is such a common sentiment that it is reasonable to assume there might be a word for it. I am left wondering why people didn't suggest near misses like distracting, or the obvious unignorable. Most importantly the questioner included the requisite exemplary sentence which among other things, is supposed to show how needful a word is.
But dictionaries don't always give you the whole story.
Especially with close synonyms, which often give me much headache, it takes more than a definition and a bunch of examples to convey the feel of the word.
But I imagine that's not the type of question you complained about.
What is the best word to describe something positive that is hard to overlook or to ignore?
Example:
Her passion for dancing is ______ (hard to ignore)!
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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