It even seems to be the default command towards which it is biased when it thinks it is receiving a command, but no other phrases match it, because it would sometimes spontaneously undo the last move based on background noise when I wasn’t even talking (but I’m in a noisy place with music playing). parsing a command takes up to 6 seconds, which is long - especially if it parses the command wrongly, and you have to say ‘undo’ and wait another 6 seconds.
Memory consumption is around 500Mb, and CPU peaks at 10% while processing a command. No wake-up word is required, but then again, it’s only listening while the Chess app is focused, so it’s not the same as a voice command device without wake-up word that’s on 24h. Using a headset (of course) significantly improves the speech recognition performance, as well as speed, but even without a headset, and with some patience, I was able to play chess in a room where there is music playing. Then again, I guess the Macbook’s internal microphone is directional, and I was speaking towards the microphone while the music in the room was undirected. I tried what happens when I say ‘pawn e2 to a6’ (an illegal move in chess), and it translates this to ‘pawn e2 to e3’ - as do ‘rock e2 to e3’ and ‘pawn e2 takes e3’ when there’s a pawn on square e2. Yet when you say ‘elephant e2 to e3’, nothing happens.
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