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I also found it going very well or very, very badly.

For instance: "In most cases, before beginning to listen, the browser will ask permission to monitor your microphone."

Came out as: "In Las Cruces, f listen, permission to monitor your microphone."




I think in the future, when computers are 100 times more intelligent than they are, we'll laugh at these examples. But no one should doubt the difficulty of interpreting continuous speech without prior training for a given speaker. It's no wonder that speech interpretation on telephones tend to be limited to understanding a handful of possible responses: "Yes", "No", "Let me speak to a human!"




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