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Re: A question about Google and Google voice
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:22:30 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Sunil Garg <sunil () sunilgarg com> Date: April 12, 2009 3:05:12 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] A question about Google and Google voice Marissa Mayer confirmed this 1.5 years ago with regards to Google 411.The speech recognition experts that we have say: If you want us to build a really robust speech model, we need a lot of phonemes, which is a syllable as spoken by a particular voice with a particular intonation. So we need a lot of people talking, saying things so that we can ultimately train off of that. ... So 1-800-GOOG-411 is about that: Getting a bunch of different speech samples so that when you call up or we're trying to get the voice out of video, we can do it with high accuracy.
http://www.infoworld.com/print/40539 Regards, Sunil On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:40 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:I have heard reasonable support for belief that one of the reasons that Google has implemented Google voice is a belief that voice control will be an important input path in the future. What better way to gather a sampling of a wide variety of voices and potentially a very large experimental test data set for voice recognition than to provide a service such as Google voice.
If, and I have no direct evidence to support or deny this, they are recording and saving the conversations from Google voice this raises a critical question about privacy and maybe a legal question or two.
So I am asking readers to keep their ears open for any information that would support or deny this concern.
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