When you say "plateaued" again, do you have example ? I follow speech recognition like an average engineer and I mostly encounter "success" stories. So I'm afraid that I see things with rosy glasses. Do you have some examples where it fails in a meaningful way (that is, it fails on apparently simple, or usual, scenarios).
Google's SR running on our xiaomi spy devices in my house consistently gets things way wrong.
Pretty much any SR I have ever used on any device seems incredibly bad.
Obviously these devices don't use whisper etc, but even so, these are sold to consumers and 50% of the time they don't get the prompt correctly.
We have "smart bulbs" that are connected to this spy network, which means that if I want to turn off a light, if I don't want to be shat on my by my partner I can't just turn off the switch, but rather stand pointlessly trying to turn off/on the lights by yelling at a fucking box in my lounge. I hate this so much more than you could ever begin to imagine.
And somehow, all these "success" stories has not yet been enough for him to open his eyes. People will buy any shit and then convince themselves that they have "success" stories.
Lets not even breach the topic of the fact that I have been using computer vision for years to do cool shit, but no, lets buy shit xiaomi cameras that have no API to interface with, so the absolute best case scenario for me knowing what's on the camera, is opening their piece of shit app and waiting 10-30 seconds for them to figure out how to connect over our network using their own fucking API.
Since I'm on this tangent now, I would love to pay special mention to their PIECE OF SHIT KETTLE Which is supposed to be a smart kettle, but the one fucking thing you would want to be able to do remotely is not supported. Oh, you wanted to boil your kettle from your desk? Well Fuck you!
I was going to go on a rant about how smart isn't useful unless it's easier than not-smart - my lights are either on a motion sensor, timer or based on device usage so we never actually need to do anything with them. The bedroom, bathroom and kitchen are on manual switches.
Then I looked at the kettle... I have a temperature controlled kettle, it has three buttons and does everything theirs does with an app. Plus it's 2.4kW and holds 1.7L so is better than theirs all around!
I really think we should have a consumer organization that grants rights to companies to mass produce items (so it would hit only large companies). That way we get a kind of democratic way to say "No" to products that work against the consumer (goodbye SmartTV) and end in a landfill within a few years.
I mean, I need a permit to add a window to my home. Can we please require permits for mass-dumping semi-useless products onto the market?
