A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse
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The Logitech Voice M380 wireless mouse looks and acts like a regular mouse but with a special button to initiate voice dictation. Baidu claimed recognition facilitates content creation at two to three times the speed of what one can type.
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The device supports dictation in Chinese, English, and Japanese, and can translate content to English, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, and Thai. However, as of this month, you can only pick it up in China. There's no word on when or if it will be available elsewhere.
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The Logitech M380 Baidu voice mouse. Click to enlarge
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The mouse uses Baidu's AI open platform [4]Baidu Brain speech technology. The Chinese tech company said of the platform:
As of September 2020, Baidu Brain has developed more than 270 core AI capabilities and created over 310,000 models for developers.
Baidu Brain is made of a security module and four components: a foundation layer (uses open-source Chinese deep learning platform Paddle Paddle, Kunlun AI processors, and databases); the so-called "perception" layer (aggregates the company's algorithm in voice technology, computer vision and AR/VR); a cognition layer (integrates new information); and a platform layer.
Logitech and Baidu make an interesting pairing. The Swiss consumer electronics company has reported massive profits for its fiscal 2021, thanks to COVID tech consumerism. Nearly every Logitech division enjoyed double or triple-digit [5]growth for Q3 .
Baidu has also been [6]done well during the pandemic , so well that it received a [7]warning from China's State Administration for Market Regulation for monopolistic behaviour this month.
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The mouse comes in three colours, graphite, rose, and off-white, and costs around $30 (£22, €25). ®
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Re: Really?
Just replying to my own post here...
I wonder if I am missing anything being a native English speaker?
I can imagine that there is something about typing in Chinese (for a given size of keyboard!) that is more cumbersome than English - maybe that's the factor I am ignoring here and that's how they are gathering this time saving metric?
I see what you did with the title, El Reg
[1]Scotty was 35 years too early .
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U
I have enough problems with windows and Android trying to correct my idiomatic English into something like American English, if I started shouting at a mouse, dog knows what the result would be.
So where does the speech recognition happen ?
It can't be in the mouse.
It could be in the user's PC - some chunk of software needed, probably MS Windows only.
I suspect that it sends the voice up to Baidu's servers to use its Baidu Brain. So this means that everything that you want speech recognised goes to China. They might well give you some text back but they will keep a copy to give to Chinese spooks.
Anyone who does not live their life 100% in the open should aoid this like the plague. It is a security disaster. But I can see idiot managers blindly ordering these things :-(
But then some twats do share stuff on facebook - so maybe it will sell well!
Can you switch the chatting to Baidu servers off ?
?Hello, computer
who doesn't love a gif --- https://giphy.com/gifs/reactionseditor-reaction-3o7btVRbshbbaC8Ygg
Hello Computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hShY6xZWVGE
Mouse?
Why use a mouse to do this? Mice don't type, keyboards do.
How is this different than using software* that already exists?
*local and/or remote
So... this is a mouse with a microphone?
Because I somehow doubt all that AI magic takes place in the hardware.
Link down, brain fried.
> The mouse uses Baidu's AI open platform Baidu Brain speech technology.
Luckily, my keyboard does not require an internet connection to work. I think for the time being, I'll stick with that.
Mr Tibbet has bought my cow.
Really?
Baidu claimed recognition facilitates content creation at two to three times the speed of what one can type.
Really? Whenever I have tried voice recognition, you can indeed get lots of words down, but by the time you have corrected errors and punctuation it takes at least as long as typing it in the first place....