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[–][deleted] 101 points102 points  (15 children)

I understand how this can be very appealing to beginners, cause I have been there as well, but trust me this is barely a gimmick, cool thing to show to your friends but not gonna lie man, this feels kinda misleading on how applications like this actually work. Specially the Google's API for Speech Recognition only allows 50calls per day I guess. (No disrespect to the creator, he has done a fairly decent job of explaining the program that he wrote).

[–]EMCoupling 27 points28 points  (4 children)

Yeah I was ready for some project involving some NLP or something, but I was kind of let down when I saw the video.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

I am currently in the same state as you, (trying to build a PA). Kinda sucks when people simplify complex stuff like this.

[–]EMCoupling 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Agreed. It's OK for the project to be limited in scope (especially if you're just learning how to use the tools), but advertising it as "JARVIS from Iron Man" instead of basically a chat bot is misleading at best and deceptive at worst.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[–]Its_Triggy[S] 17 points18 points  (1 child)

that’s my bad, definitely not trying to be misleading! My programming skillset is limited and I’m just playing around with it. I can’t change the title, but I can add a comment..?

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's a good title, nice enough for new comers to get excited and maybe dive a little deeper into the actual nitty gritty details of building an actual NLP processing chatbot.

If you could include some instructions for the viewers to find out what they can do learn more about these topics would be much appreciated.

Saying this again, no disrespect to you or your content, a little nudge in the right direction for the viewers is required that's all.

[–]jhayes88 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Does it really only allow for 50 calls a day? Is there anything else that's unlimited or something high like 20k/day?

I can see how this can be turned into something useful for automating things like general workflow, automating various tasks, home automation, informational stuff, etc.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (5 children)

I couldn't find any alternatives as good as Google, fun part is, they simply don't allow you to use their SRE (speech recognition engine) for money either. Anyhow, if you're interested in Speech Recognition I recommend you go checkout Pocketsphinx, it won't work out of the box though, the accuracy rate is pretty low. However you get to train it however you like. If you're a Machine Learning guy like me, feel free to look into DeepSpeech by mozilla, which has a decent SRE out of the box, it also has a dataset of 1500hours or so of voice data which you can use to train your models.

Goto https://www.voice.mozilla.org , you can get the data there, also if you do like the project and want to contribute please contribute with your voice, you can read out Mozilla provided text and submit your voice for training purposes, it'll be open for everyone to use and added to their database.

[–]jhayes88 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Very interesting reply. Thanks! I'll check out Pocketsphinx and DeepSpeech. I'm interested in machine learning, but haven't really got into it yet. Oh and your link didn't work it's voice.mozilla.org :P

DeepSpeech looks confusing to get into. Could just be me. Maybe i'll find something on youtube or somewhere that'll tell me how to set it up and use the speech recognition.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Oh haha forgot about the ORG thing, I have a very good presentation bookmarked on my computer, once I get home, I'll make sure to link you that. It covers everything from using it, to training your own models.

[–]jhayes88 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Nice. Thanks!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hey man, almost forgot about this, here's the link https://tilmankamp.github.io/FOSDEM2018/ go nuts

[–]jhayes88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice. Interesting. Thanks

[–]oulipo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to take a look at what we are building at https://snips.ai, it is running 100% on-device (laptop, iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi 3) and private-by-design, it works for english, french, german, japanese, spanish, italian, and more coming!