It is no longer necessary to type an inquiry, you can just verbally ask your phone. Now, with the new speech recognition service that has been recently released by Google for the iPhone, you can actually talk to the search engine. Just as you enter questions into a search box on the traditional Google application, is how this new program best understands verbal questions. For example all that needs to be said is, “best Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles.”
Voice recognition technologies such as this new application and Bluetooth devices for vehicles demonstrate how this industry has progressed. One of the first successful demonstrations of a voice command technology were the voice controlled battleships created by researchers at SRI International, originally the Stanford Research Institute, in 1983. The industry’s leaders have always stated that one day we will be able to talk to machines, and that they will understand us. And over the past twenty-five years Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have all claimed that voice recognition is necessary for the mobile computing era. Other companies such as I.B.M, Nuance and Vlingo are also in the race, and the stakes are high. Whoever develops and refines the first major technology in voice will easily take control over handheld devices.
Voice recognition technologies such as this new application and Bluetooth devices for vehicles demonstrate how this industry has progressed. One of the first successful demonstrations of a voice command technology were the voice controlled battleships created by researchers at SRI International, originally the Stanford Research Institute, in 1983. The industry’s leaders have always stated that one day we will be able to talk to machines, and that they will understand us. And over the past twenty-five years Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have all claimed that voice recognition is necessary for the mobile computing era. Other companies such as I.B.M, Nuance and Vlingo are also in the race, and the stakes are high. Whoever develops and refines the first major technology in voice will easily take control over handheld devices.
Dina Rosenberg, Thursday 8am
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