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ConfusedUs posted:Do you have a separate "office" and/or do you use a different set of hardware to work than to play? Not currently, which is absolutely contributing to the malaise. We're in the process of putting the house up for sale, so it's spotlessly clean and in "do not touch" mode, which means I have the office and that's it. In a few months I'll have a new place and hopefully have room for a "work" office. Fingers crossed. For now it's not that bad really. I spent some time in the yard, then took off to the Colo for a couple hours.
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dragonshardz posted:A response to a tech came in. Not interesting, except for this... That people actually use Cortana is amazing to me.
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Aug 13, 2020 20:12
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orange juche posted:That people actually use Cortana is amazing to me. I was using microsofts voice commands 8 years ago, and if cortana integrates those I could see actually using it again. if hey google wasn't already in my pocket listening to me
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Aug 13, 2020 20:28
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orange juche posted:That people actually use Cortana is amazing to me. The tech in question also has to be regularly reminded how to create a local user account, and recently sent in an email asking us to make sure a user's name wasn't misspelled in the description on a laptop that the tech already has physical possession of. Said tech has the ability and access to fix that his own drat self.
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larchesdanrew posted:"Eeeehhhhhhhhhhh uhhh oh ehhh mmmm"
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Everyone here sick of computers should try get into pentesting or at least do a bit of bug hunting. Nothing is more satisfying than rooting someone's production DB and saying "here's how I did it, this is now your problem".RFC2324 posted:I was using microsofts voice commands 8 years ago, and if cortana integrates those I could see actually using it again. if hey google wasn't already in my pocket listening to me
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Arquinsiel posted:Everyone here sick of computers should try get into pentesting or at least do a bit of bug hunting. that's the opposite of what I want to do.
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orange juche posted:That people actually use Cortana is amazing to me. When it became available on my Xbox I used it for a bit, mostly for saying 'hey Cortana, record that' or 'hey Cortana, take a screenshot'. However, she frequently popped up when i was in party chat with buddies and said "hey [name], ..." and she would open an Edge window try to and Bing whatever I said. 
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Arquinsiel posted:Everyone here sick of computers should try get into pentesting or at least do a bit of bug hunting. Nothing is more satisfying than rooting someone's production DB and saying "here's how I did it, this is now your problem". Voice commands are handy and I like them. I chose the Google option a while back, so unless I see reason to think someone is better I'll stick with them. Also, Cortana on my Android phone seems dumb, and if I want voice control its usually because my hands are full of, say, car parts because I do things that aren't in front of the computer
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Merijn posted:When it became available on my Xbox I used it for a bit, mostly for saying 'hey Cortana, record that' or 'hey Cortana, take a screenshot'. However, she frequently popped up when i was in party chat with buddies and said "hey [name], ..." and she would open an Edge window try to and Bing whatever I said. I never did find a use for speech controls (sorry, having to repeat my commands over and over and try to correct the fuckups is more frustrating than putting poo poo down or pulling over and just using my drat hands), but I did poo poo up my friend’s new Xbone+Kinect by shouting, “hey Xbox, search boobs” whenever no one else was talking.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I never did find a use for speech controls (sorry, having to repeat my commands over and over and try to correct the fuckups is more frustrating than putting poo poo down or pulling over and just using my drat hands), but I did poo poo up my friend’s new Xbone+Kinect by shouting, “hey Xbox, search boobs” whenever no one else was talking. Having to repeat yourself is the product of three things. Not training the device to your speech (and retraining every 3 months or so), accents, and slurring. I never noticed I slur my speech when I don't think about it until I figured out that it was causing my normal requests to not match the trained voice
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I never did find a use for speech controls (sorry, having to repeat my commands over and over and try to correct the fuckups is more frustrating than putting poo poo down or pulling over and just using my drat hands), but I did poo poo up my friend’s new Xbone+Kinect by shouting, “hey Xbox, search boobs” whenever no one else was talking. I use them (button activated) for accessing common tasks that are fiddly, like setting reminders, alarms, and timers. I've never had a problem with either google's or apple's recognising my English accent, untrained. When I had an apple watch I gave it a stress test by using it to add up a restaurant bill ("four pounds twenty nine plus twenty pounds thirty five plus..") at high speed in a very noisy restaurant with bad reception, and it didn't miss a beat.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I use them (button activated) for accessing common tasks that are fiddly, like setting reminders, alarms, and timers. I've never had a problem with either google's or apple's recognising my English accent, untrained. Voice recognition has come a long way How else is your phone gonna evesdrop on you so it can serve up relevant ads?😳
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Aug 14, 2020 17:54
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RFC2324 posted:Voice recognition has come a long way I remember 1999-era Dragon Naturally Speaking. A very long way indeed.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I remember 1999-era Dragon Naturally Speaking. A very long way indeed. https://www.somethingawful.com/fashion-swat/science-fair-swat/14/ 
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Google assistant can never find music to play or do anything navigation related in my car, and that's my only time I would actually use it, so I never use it. I know cars are the worst place for voice recognition due to the generally poor quality of microphones in handsfree systems in cars, and the higher noise floor due to vehicle noises, but if it doesn't work in the most compelling environment to use it in, I'm not going to use it.
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Aug 14, 2020 21:06
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I'm just immensely sad that the Google voice recognition no longer responds to "What is the nature of the universe?" with "The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter." It made perfect sense, that's the next line from the episode, so it was the correct "answer" to the Google search and so that's what it read out to you. At some point like five years ago they fixed it and now it starts talking about actual cosmology. 
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Aug 14, 2020 21:22
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boy the "collecting and posting pictures of children, sometimes including their real names, to mock" genre of article is some real "olde SA" stuff best left in the past imo
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Aug 14, 2020 21:36
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orange juche posted:Google assistant can never find music to play or do anything navigation related in my car, and that's my only time I would actually use it, so I never use it. I know cars are the worst place for voice recognition due to the generally poor quality of microphones in handsfree systems in cars, and the higher noise floor due to vehicle noises, but if it doesn't work in the most compelling environment to use it in, I'm not going to use it. its got less to do with background noise(which it is actually pretty good at dealing with) and more to do with your internet connect. voice recognition works by using the computing power of the cloud to figure out wtf you are saying, so is more sensitive to signal issues that mic issues
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I never did find a use for speech controls (sorry, having to repeat my commands over and over and try to correct the fuckups is more frustrating than putting poo poo down or pulling over and just using my drat hands), but I did poo poo up my friend’s new Xbone+Kinect by shouting, “hey Xbox, search boobs” whenever no one else was talking. I can't find the actual picture right now, but I'm thinking of a comic exemplifying this Boss: hey look, my phone has voice recognition. Check this out: hey Google.. Employee: SEARCH HORSE PORN. EMAIL FIRST FIVE PAGES TO WIFE. CONFIRM. ERASE SEARCH HISTORY. e: and also this one https://imgur.com/a/h5SoJgZ
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RFC2324 posted:Voice recognition has come a long way Either Apple is scanning our emails for new words or they're updating their list of proper nouns really fast. My company announced FDA approval for a new medicine this week, and by Friday it was already turning up in spelling suggestions on my phone.
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My phone keeps suggesting "JustJeff88" every time I tap J. I'm guessing that's a goon but I have no idea why they're in my suggestion dictionary. I don't think I've ever interacted with them before.
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RFC2324 posted:Having to repeat yourself is the product of three things. Not training the device to your speech (and retraining every 3 months or so), accents, and slurring. mllaneza posted:Either Apple is scanning our emails for new words or they're updating their list of proper nouns really fast. My company announced FDA approval for a new medicine this week, and by Friday it was already turning up in spelling suggestions on my phone.
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Arquinsiel posted:What you have just described is doing someone else's IT work for zero pay. How is teaching a thing what my specific voice sounds like someone elses job? Do you also think it's someone else's job to train your dog to obey you?
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RFC2324 posted:How is teaching a thing what my specific voice sounds like someone elses job? The implication here is that the fact that you have to means someone else didn't finish theirs.
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Motronic posted:The implication here is that the fact that you have to means someone else didn't finish theirs.
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I think its a bit much to ask that the software be able to interpret ever accent and dialect, as spoken by every individual, without giving it a final pass to personalize it. Its on par with asking for bug free software: nice to wish for, but reality would disagree with it being common. And as far as free training, we are already doing that, doing the specific training is literally saying "hey google" 3 times.
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Weatherman posted:My phone keeps suggesting "JustJeff88" every time I tap J. I'm guessing that's a goon but I have no idea why they're in my suggestion dictionary. I don't think I've ever interacted with them before. Huh. The best I get is my phone corrects "from" to "futon" every. Single. loving. Time. To the point where I use swype for most things and then stop and hunt/peck out "from" and the like 3 other words it can't seem to get right. At least it eventually learned that 99.5% of the time, no, I do not actually want to type the word "duck" or "ducking".
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I apparently swear too much, because my phone has corrected at least one conjugation of duck to gently caress.
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I fat finger my phone keyboard so often I have to delete "abd" from its wordlist at least once a week.
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Arquinsiel posted:I turned predictive text off entirely on my tablet and it randomly inserts entire words into sentences still I've been having that a lot lately as well. In addition to the above, I've recently found that if I tap the letter i and then anything else, my phone tries to combine them into something completely different. So just simply inputting "i see" becomes "k", "use", or "is".
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mllaneza posted:Either Apple is scanning our emails for new words or they're updating their list of proper nouns really fast. My company announced FDA approval for a new medicine this week, and by Friday it was already turning up in spelling suggestions on my phone. And yet to this day "Hey Siri, what's traffic like up ahead" or "Give me directions to the place I just asked you to look up a second ago" are baffling alien space technology we are centuries from attaining
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For some reason every six months or so my Swype decides some words need to become virtual nonsense like swiping "dependence" somehow comes out the other end as "deal GB ends". All the nonsense word salads have GB or BB in them and the only way to get rid of them is resetting my dictionary, which helpfully also means retraining it to stop correcting my eSes to Zees.
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Arquinsiel posted:What you have just described is doing someone else's IT work for zero pay. Still better than ads in the phone app.
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Steakandchips posted:A mate asks me: This is more the "bitching about tech support horrors" thread. The Enterprise Windows and Software Megathread is this-a-way -> https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3137721 I mean, obviously, that's for Windows specific software, not cloud/SaaS, but there might be enough overlap to get a good answer.
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