Sunday, August 19, 2012

Just talk


Voice reorganization is not something new. Search engine, like Google, focuses on voice search and recently added another 13 languages, mainly focused on European languages, to its Google search capacity. This totaled 42 languages. Between Google’s adding more languages and Apple’s high profile Siri voice-command service, it is very clear that smart phone drives this hands-free command revolution.

"Over the last 15 years, speech recognition has had a reputation for not being highly accurate especially when used on mobile devices. What Apple has done with Siri has laid the groundwork for greater acceptance and comfort of using voice as an interface between user and device," says Daniel Hong, lead analyst of customer experience and interaction at Ovum.

Despite the ground work Siri has done, accuracy is still the major problem that voice recognition faces. Especially with many new languages being added, people with different accents, different tones, and different speaking habits, added more complication and challenge. Voice reorganization system attempts to solve this problem by continuously collecting data through user’s experience and continuously improving the accuracy based on individual user’s voice patter.

Through technology advancement, there is no doubt that voice reorganization is one more big step toward power smart phone with new tools, is one more big step that make smart phone a even more important part of our life.  Can we live without smart phone one day?

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