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📣 fuzztester

Speech recognition had got quite good on mobile. How?


Not perfect, but good to the extent that I use it a fair amount on mobile to speed up my text input by using speech-to-text in WhatsApp, SMS, Gmail, etc. I voice-type and then edit to correct the errors.


  👤 cloudking Accepted Answer ✓
My guess, lots of user data + user corrections. When we correct what our phones mishear, that data helps train the speech recognition models to get more accurate over time.

👤 pornel
I’m particularly impressed by speech recognition on Apple Watch. On device, via tiny microphones, in noisy environments, and still works despite my non-native accent.