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Speech-to-text has to still go a long way when it comes to foreign accents. Google now's "Ok Google" initializer has about 3/10 hit-rate for my Indian accent speech.



'Ok Google' is a different problem though - needs to be a low resource, always-on listener with a low false-positive rate. That's quite a different problem space than general speech-to-text.

I think I get about 50% hit rate with 'OK Google' and I'm a native English speaker :).


I had the weirdest conversation with my phone this morning, and I'm a native English speaker with nothing really identifiable as an accent.

"Okay, Google." Nothing.

"Okay, Google." Nothing.

"Okay, Google fucking work or I am taking a hammer to this fucking phone." "DING!"

Apparently threats of violence still work against our machine overlords.




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