Speech technology is poised to be a game-changer for smartphones, especially as they get embedded deeper into the operating systems and hardware
Aug 10, 2011
Speech is transforming from an alternative to text input into a much more powerful tool that can understand user internet and connect them more quickly to information, using natural language processing, semantic analysis and cloud computing. In essence, speech is becoming the smart short cut for mobile.
Ryan Kim of GigaOm reports that Nuance CTO Vlad Sejnoha gave at the SpeechTek conference in New York City a broad picture of how speech technology is poised to be a game-changer for smartphones, especially as it gets embedded deeper into the operating systems and hardware.
Speech can be built to complement and enhance other interfaces helping you find existing applications or information you are familiar with but it is hard to launch or find. Speech can get you there. It is really a powerful direct access; we are just entering an amazing era of speech.
We are seeing some of that with Nuance’s latest Dragon Go app, which answers voice activated searches by pulling up a host of websites and apps that complete a user’s query. Instead of search result links, Go allows people to complete actions faster. Vlingo and Siri, the Nuance-powered app bought by Apple, are also pursuing this concept of a smart voice-activated assistant.
However, the real power will be in allowing users to make queries of unstructured data and get back answers immediately. He said Nuance’s new partnership with IBM’s Watson program, which uses IBM’s deep question answering, natural language processing, and machine learning capabilities, will be useful for mobile users, helping them seek answers that are currently hard to come by.
For instance, a user could ask what friends thought of a particular movie or restaurant, and Nuance and IBM could digest their social media information and come up with an answer. On the other hand, a vacationer driving around in a new city could ask what time local restaurants or businesses close. While this type of technology will be useful in enterprise settings, it would be very valuable to mobile users, who are more intent-driven and want a focused distillation of answers.
He said it makes more sense to move speech technology deeper into smartphones, integrating it from the ground up, which will open even more opportunities for speech to aid in the user experience. Handset manufacturers are very interested in integrating speech as a differentiator, to make their hardware stand out. Ultimately, he believes all smartphones will include some form of this deep speech integration working in concert with the visual interface. We are already seeing that with Microsoft’s use of speech in Windows Phone 7 and Google’s use of voice in Android.
It’s a new kind of control, like a natural language overlay over the visual framework. We will have this ability to jump and short-cut through the mini desktop to grab and control things and the best way to do that is getting that capacity up front and having the visual stuff play with that.
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Adapted from http://gigaom.com/2011/08/09/nuance-cto-speech-tech-will-be-mobile-tech/
For instance, a user could ask what friends thought of a particular movie or restaurant, and Nuance and IBM could digest their social media information and come up with an answer. On the other hand, a vacationer driving around in a new city could ask what time local restaurants or businesses close. While this type of technology will be useful in enterprise settings, it would be very valuable to mobile users, who are more intent-driven and want a focused distillation of answers.
He said it makes more sense to move speech technology deeper into smartphones, integrating it from the ground up, which will open even more opportunities for speech to aid in the user experience. Handset manufacturers are very interested in integrating speech as a differentiator, to make their hardware stand out. Ultimately, he believes all smartphones will include some form of this deep speech integration working in concert with the visual interface. We are already seeing that with Microsoft’s use of speech in Windows Phone 7 and Google’s use of voice in Android.
It’s a new kind of control, like a natural language overlay over the visual framework. We will have this ability to jump and short-cut through the mini desktop to grab and control things and the best way to do that is getting that capacity up front and having the visual stuff play with that.
For more information on iPhone Applications Development, iPhone Developers, Hire your iPhone Programmers, Android Applications Development, Android Developers, Android Programmers, visit http://www.dckap.com/mobile-application-development.htm
Adapted from http://gigaom.com/2011/08/09/nuance-cto-speech-tech-will-be-mobile-tech/
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