Re: stabilityThreshold attribute

I mentioned something similar for confidenceThreshold as well - this is
really an optimisation for the speech service that most web developers
would choose to ignore. Can this be added if there is a real need reported
by developers after v1?

Cheers
Satish


On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Glen Shires <gshires@google.com> wrote:

> If there's no disagreement, I'll add this to the spec on Tuesday...
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> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Glen Shires <gshires@google.com> wrote:
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>> For JavaScript authors that do not make use of interim results, or only
>> want to show fewer and more stable interim results, the following
>> stabilityThreshold would allow the author to request this, which reduces
>> the bandwidth usage and the events fired (and thus also reduces compute and
>> power).  In addition, the stability attribute returned with interim results
>> would allow authors to process results according to their estimated
>> stability. For example, an author might choose to display final results in
>> black, fairly stable results in dark grey, and not very stable results in
>> light grey.
>>
>> I propose the following:
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>> Add to IDL for SpeechRecognitionResult
>>     readonly attribute float stability;
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>> Add to 5.1.6 Speech Recognition Result definitions
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>> stability
>>   The stability represents a numeric estimate between 0.0 and 1.0 of how
>> likely the recognition system is to change this interim result. A higher
>> number indicates the result is less likely to change.  This attribute is
>> not defined when the "final" attribute is true.
>>
>> Add to IDL for SpeechRecognition (the top level)
>>     attribute float stabilityThreshold;
>>
>> Add to 5.1.1 Speech Recognition Attributes definitions:
>>
>>  stabilityThreshold
>>   This attribute controls how many interim results are returned. When set
>> to the value of 1.0, no interim results (only final results) will be
>> returned.  When set to 0.0, all interim results will be returned. Valid
>> values are in the range of 0.0 to 1.0 inclusive. The default value is 1.0.
>>
>> /Glen Shires
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