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I clearly stated that speech technology would only take off if it works. If you don't trust it, or it can't handle you yelling, then it doesn't work and I agree that it won't take off.

I'm curious about the "mental reasons" you hint at. What are those reasons? Do you mean something like Uncanny Valley? Or something else entirely?

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you can expect a person to ask if something is unclear. no speech recog system has done that yet.

speech recog is orders of magnitude behind humans in accuracy.

understanding is another thing entirely. i don't mean philosophy but the problem of even parsing a sentence. just look at implementations of automatic language translation to get a feeling for this problem.

speech recog has a long way to go because AI has a long way to go.

you don't get human-like machine interaction out of bare speech recog.

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