CP iOS 1.9: Speech Recognition Function

ka3er3ni2er3sen1
 October 10, 2013 at 04:56 PM posted in General Discussion

Has anyone tried the new speech recognition function (marked as BETA)? I have not tried it very extensively yet, but it looks like a very interesting function.

(I've also been exprerimenting with Siri in Manadrin before, but this seems more helpful, at least for beginners.) 

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he2xu4
 November 22, 2013 at 08:05 PM

IMHO, it's too generous with my poor pronunciations, ha ha. I score in the 80s, sometimes higher, I think I deserve probable 20 points less. My mom usually gets 100%, her Mandarin is pretty good, Cantonese is her first dialect.

I realize it's still in beta, and speech recognition is a hard problem, but what would be helpful is for it to point out why you scored what you scored, where you messed up.

You can simulate this yourself by testing yourself over and over again on the same sentence, but that's a little cumbersome.

ChinesePod - this is an an excellent addition in functionality to the app. Hope you keep looking for new features like this to add to your app.