On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:14:03 +0100, dieter wrote: >> The user speaks "Light". The system translates it as "Bright" The user >> speaks "White" The system translates it as "Bright" > > As those words are phonetically quite apart (they have very different > first consonants), some step in your processing chain does something > seriously wrong.
I disagree: Light, Bright and White sound very similar. They're identical except for the first consonant: /laɪt/ /bɹaɪt/ /waɪt/ and even those consonants sound very similar. Human beings can easily mishear or fail to distinguish between those words, e.g.: https://www.wordnik.com/words/we%20tripped%20a%20light%20fan%20dangle https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22brighter+shade+of+pale%22+mondegreen (the name of the song is *Whiter* Shade of Pale, not "Lighter" or "Brighter"). We should not assume that the first consonant is always correct. Of course we would hope that a speech-to-text system would correctly match Light/Bright/White/Fright/etc but given the vagaries of human accents and pronunciation, we shouldn't be surprised if it sometimes gets them wrong. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
