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[Zisu Andrei <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> 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 <coder543@xxxxxxxxx> 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" <clem11388@xxxxxxxxx> 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.woods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <coder543@xxxxxxxxx> 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.bylund@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Has there been any discussion of voice recognition, both to compose
>>>>>> texts/emails and to perform actions, like "open the music player"? I find
>>>>>> this feature quite useful on my current phone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Joe
>>>>>>
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