Te Hiku soon found itself fending off corporate entities trying to develop their own indigenous data sets and resisting detrimental western approaches to data sharing.
But building the tools was only half the battle. The small staff of Māori language broadcasters and one engineer were about to become pioneers in indigenous speech recognition technology. It was enough data to build language tech for te reo Māori, the Māori language – including automatic speech recognition and speech-to-text.
In ten days, thanks to a competition it had started, Māori speakers across New Zealand had recorded over 300 hours of annotated audio in their mother tongue. Google's Easter Eggs for Binary and Other Number S.In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, were in disbelief. Google Experiments With a Collapsible Search SidebarĬustomize Gmail's Buttons: Replace Icons With Text
When you type: " Their coming too sea if its reel" in Google Docs, only " too" and " sea" are flagged, while no misspelled word is flagged in Google Search. Unfortunately, the example I used back in 2009, when Google Wave added a context-sensitive spell checker, no longer works today. There are some downsides (it doesn't work offline and everything you type is sent to Google's servers), but all Google services and software could be improved by switching to the online spell checker. Just like Gmail's spam filter is better than the spam filter of a desktop mail client and Google's online speech-to-text engine is better than any offline speech recognition software, the smart spell checker from Google Search and Google Docs (originally available in Google Wave) is better than any dictionary-based spell checker. That's the great thing about web services: they evolve faster and they can become smarter by bringing more data. As Google crawls the web, we see new words, and if those new words become popular enough they'll automatically be included in our spell checker-even pop culture terms, like Skrillex," explains Google.
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