On Saturday 03 May 2008 18:13, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 03 May 2008 23:59:00 John Andersen wrote:
Admittedly these things are using a vastly reduced vocabulary. But never the less, training is on the way out.
Doesn't that require that dialects disappear as well?
I can easily find three English/American dialects which *you* couldn't understand. What chance would your phone have? In Sweden, some dialects might as well be different languages - the words really are the same, but they're pronounced so differently from how I would pronounce them, that in practice there is virtually no similarity. Here in Germany, the difference between Fränkisch and Hochdeutch makes my life difficult on a daily basis, I can't even begin to imagine what an algorithm would look like that could incorporate them both.
Where is Fränkisch spoken? When I was in Germany in the mid 70's, most Germans of 40 years or younger could speak a "general German" such as was heard on the radio or TV. This did not seem to be true in Switzerland, altho the Swiss could understand my "general German." Even some of the older folks--I met a fellow from the Rheinland whose accent betrayed him, but he told me that if he spoke the language that he used at home, no-one in Stuttgart could understand him. But he also told me that his kids were learning a general German in school, and starting to use it at home. At any rate, if almost everyone can speak a "general German," then speech to text should be possible in that language. Without being as fluent in Italian, it seemed to me when I was there in the 80's, that the same sort of thing was happening.
And I'm told the situation in countries like India is even more extreme
India is a different story: they are actually speaking different languages, not dialects. I don't remember how many different languages, but the number 100 would not surprise me.
So sure, training might be on the way out, as long as you adhere to some sort of "standard" way of speaking. But for most of us, I think it will always be needed
Anders
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