[CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

[Stanley Zawrotny]

Amazon’s Alexa is quite good. She understands statements made in a variety of ways. She differentiates voices well between my wife and me. She does make some silly mistakes, but it is usually because we mumbled or otherwise didn’t speak clearly. 

She picks out our commands with TV and other background noises, but not sure how she would do in a pileup. She (and others) might have trouble with all the concurrent voices. Consider how often ops start calling while you are still saying your callsign and QRZ.

Stan, K4SBZ

"Real radio bounces off the sky."

> On Aug 25, 2021, at 6:48 AM, rjairam at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Speech recognition isn't new but the improvements to how it is
> processed are improving daily. Things like accents and natural
> language processing are getting us closer to computers understanding
> casual human speech.
> 
> Siri isn't decades old. The iPhone was introduced in 2008 and Siri was
> introduced in 2011. It's barely 10 years old.
> 
> Anyway it is a new dimension to contesting and we already have robot
> voices, so why not robot ears. It will even allow deaf people to take
> part in phone contests which is a good thing I think.
> 
> 73
> Ria, N2RJ
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:35 PM Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j at benshome.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8/24/2021 12:23 AM, Hans Brakob wrote:
>>> Voice recognition technology is not some bleeding edge technology being pioneered by amateur radio as the world waits for us to prove it out.  Siri has been doing it for decades.
>> 
>> No experience on Siri, per se, but based on how often I have to repeat
>> things to the Google Assistant, I'm not sure if I'd want to depend on
>> even modern commercial voice recognition for voice skimmer technology.
>> 
>> Ben
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>> Ben Coleman nj8j at benshome.net
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>> same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
>>                                             Paul Tomblin
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