Day 55

Wisteria and Voice Recognition

First things first... the Wisteria are going crazy.  Here are some stills...

 

Including a vignette...

Interesting how the vignette's aspect ratio changes.  Hmm?  Must do the math.  Let's see, vignette 1920x1080, gives us a 1.78 aspect ratio.  Regular image, 2528x1856, yields a 1.36 aspect ratio.  The original ABQ Wx screen was 640x360 and has an aspect ratio of 1.78.  I'd say that vignettes are photos cropped to match the Glass viewscreen. 


Finally, here is the video.

 

OK, Wisteria are beautiful and they smell great, but perhaps more importantly today, I had an opportunity to do some voice recognition trials in the afternoon.  The question was, how well can voice recognition handle esoteric jargon?  The answer is... pretty dang well.

As an out-of-the-blue sample, I read the Chemical Weapons Convention list of Schedule 3 chemicals into my Droid notepad app and into Glass via Evernote.  Terms like phosgene, cyanogen chloride, phosphorus pentachloride, and even trimethyl phosphite were correctly transcribed by my Droid.  It did have trouble with the likes of chloropicrin (claro pikmin), methyldiethanolamine (methyl diopen hola mean), and a few others.  Droid's batting average was 73%.

Glass did fairly well although the sync option with Evernote hasn't caught up with the device even after 3 hours.  Triethyl phosfite, sulfur monochloride, and phosphorus oxychloride all transcribed properly, but "diethyl phosphite" turned into "die asshole phosphite."  Glass batted 71%. 

By far the more worrisome problem is numeric transcription.  Neither Droid nor Glass could handle CAS numbers like "6548-32-8."  These turned into "6548 dash 32 dash aight."  Most numerals are OK, even long, complex ones, but '8' and 'hate', '2' and 'to' are still problems.  Also, I've yet to have any voice-to-text system handle dictation of punctuation, carriage returns, and such in a satisfactory way.  Finally, Glass with Evernote needs a data connection.  At least my Droid's note-taking app works offline.  OK, Google, can offline voice transcription be added to Glass? 

Nuff for now.  Stay tuna'ed.