FINALLY! This is long overdue and voice assistants need a lot more human intelligence intentionally placed. Of course "Profiteers" auto-correcting to "Prophet's Tears" is the sort of amusement I enjoy :P Thanks @AccessibleJoe xo/m #a11y #w3c #voice #standards #EmergingTech #hope
Joe O’Connor @AccessibleJoe
16 Oct 2018
If you are interested in #VoiceAssistant standards the #w3c Voice Assistant Standardisation Community Group has been launched for exploration and discussion of standards for voice assistants. Join us please. @LeonieWatson #a11yTO
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Siri dictation can be frustrating. Because of Parkinson’s I find it very difficult to type. I’m using Siri dictation to dictate this tweet. Sometimes it transcribes every single word as I speak it, then when I press the keyboard icon and it changes the words.
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Then I have to tap on each word that is incorrect, see if there is an option to select a different word, or highlight the word and re-speak it, and if that doesn’t work type the word. All with a Tremor. Then it capitalizes a word. Sometimes I correct it, sometimes not.
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Replying to @tannyo @AccessibleJoe
It's the same with Google. I had high hopes. To be fair - this is very difficult technology for so so many reasons!

Oct 16, 2018 · 9:41 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @AccessibleJoe
I worked on speech recognition software for Xerox Medical Systems in the 1980s. One of the systems we tried was from Kurzweil. It used a separate computer for speech recognition with a cable to the keyboard input on the computer. It was hard then as it is now, but better now.
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Replying to @mholzschlag @tannyo
Rule number one of dev club. You don’t talk about #accessibility you just do it.
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