未来手机能否读懂你的心思_BEC初级作文

未来手机能否读懂你的心思

笔者约翰逊希望奥斯瓦尔特先生与女友的关系不要因为这种沟通失败而泡汤。2009年，奥斯瓦尔特先生向观众讲这个噱头时，文字预测还是比较新奇的功能。但是五年后的今天出现了更快更智能的处理器和更先进的无线宽带，使智能手机能更好的预测用户的心思以及下一句想要说什么。苹果公司为最新的手机操作系统IOS8提供了新的语言分析和预测元素，适用于手指打字和语音识别。

Speech recognition relies on a big database of natural human English text. An unclear word can be disambiguated by the words around it, as the software tries to match a string of words to a string in its database. If the computer hears "Four score and seven [mumble] ago", it can scan its database and guess that the missing word is probably "years".

语音识别技术依靠普通人类英语文本大型数据库。当软件听到一连串单词时，会从数据库中搜索与之相匹配的语句。所以当软件遇到一个发音模糊的单词时，可根据其前后其他单词来消除歧义。例如，当计算机听到“四十七[发音模糊]前”，它会搜索数据库猜测没听清的那个单词可能是“年”。

In iOS7, the user had to dictate an entire passage, hit “done”, and wait for the (usually quite accurate) text to appear after a second or two. In iOS8, though, things get more interesting: the words appear nearly as they are spoken. The real-time appearance of each word allows the curious language pundit to peer into the software’s mind. I tried a deliberate “Four score and seven rrrrs ago.” Each of the first four words appeared almost instantly. After the rrrrs, the system paused for a brief moment, before offering “years ago” on the screen. The software clearly thought “hmm, rrrrs sounds like nothing in my database. But this ‘four score and seven’ is almost always followed by the word ‘years’, and the ‘ago’ seems to prove it.”