Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.

[Horace]

From when the water was cold?

[Klaus]

@Axtremus said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

Pixel does speech-to-text computation locally, right on the phone. iPhone/Siri does speech-to-text computation in the Cloud, it records your speech, sends the recorded speech to some server on the Internet, that server does speech-to-text computation, then send the text back to the iPhone, hence the lag.

Ah, thanks, so it's not related to the phone's CPU power at all. But then it should be very similar on every other sufficiently powerful Android phone with the same software.

It's so amazing how the "fat client vs thin client" issues pop up and are shifted back and forth almost continuously for the last 30 years.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

Phibes when is that photo from?

I think it's from 1922

[jon-nyc]

So he’s only 47 there.

[Doctor Phibes]

He looked old almost his entire life

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

@jon-nyc said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

Phibes when is that photo from?

I think it's from 1922

http://theknittingneedleandthedamagedone.blogspot.com/2013/06/hitting-beach-with-and-in-your-knitting.html

[Axtremus]

@Klaus said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

@Axtremus said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

Pixel does speech-to-text computation locally, right on the phone. iPhone/Siri does speech-to-text computation in the Cloud, it records your speech, sends the recorded speech to some server on the Internet, that server does speech-to-text computation, then send the text back to the iPhone, hence the lag.

Ah, thanks, so it's not related to the phone's CPU power at all. But then it should be very similar on every other sufficiently powerful Android phone with the same software.

It's so amazing how the "fat client vs thin client" issues pop up and are shifted back and forth almost continuously for the last 30 years.

It’s possible to do both. Google/Pixel used to do speech-to-text in the Cloud like Apple/Siri, then somewhere between hardware and algorithmic advancements, switched to doing speech-to-text locally. There is no fundamental reason why a system cannot do both — do local speech-to-text to get a first order approximation quickly (so the user starts seeing text very quickly), but also do speech-to-text in the Cloud for refinements (user sees improved results a second or two later, such as better accuracy and resolution of special nouns that better fits the larger context).

[89th]

@Horace said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

From when the water was cold?

Lolz

[taiwan_girl]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

He looked old almost his entire life

That is true. Some people look like they are 60 when they are 20, continue to look 60 when they are 60, and finally look younger than their age when they are over 60. LOL

[Doctor Phibes]

And yet most newborn babies look like Churchill.

Spooky, huh!

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.:

And yet most newborn babies look like Churchill.

I used to tell my patients (obviously only those who had a good sense of humor) that all newborns look like Edward G. Robinson.