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SylvieBarak
Having seen Audience's technology demoed a couple of times, I have to say I ...
GREAT-Terry
Voice command is a very good stuff. However, the Siri now in iPhone is still far ...
Audience Inc. is no one-trick pony
Dylan McGrath
10/26/2012 3:39 PM EDT
New era of voice command interfaces
Audience maintains that is developing "brain-like" technologies that allow mobile devices to deliver better voice quality for clear conversations in nearly any setting, higher accuracy and performance for speech recognition services and enhanced audio for multimedia recording and playback, including mobile video and music.
The real potential for the technology, according to Santos, is to enable voice command interfaces for all types of electronics. The company has started to gain design wins in PCs and automobile electronics—sooner than it expected—according to Santos.
Santos envisions a not-so-distant future in which we interface with our PCs, cars, TVs and virtually every other electronic product by using our voices to bark orders at them. Audience's intelligent voice technology is particularly well suited to this task because it can recognize and process voice commands even in noisy environments, Santo said.
Touch screen interfaces have exploded in popularity because of the improvement they provide in ease and convenience. But what could be easier or more convenient than hands-free voice commands? We are closing in an era where we interface with our electronics with our voices, even from the other side of the room or the cockpit of a vehicle going 60 miles per hour, like Jean-Luc Picard ordering a cup of tea.
Of course, voice command interfaces have already gained traction in some areas, but that's only the tip of the iceberg.
"We are really just at the beginning of voice and auditory intelligence in user interfaces," Santos said. "Voice is going to have a very significant role as user interface comparable to that of touch not just in phones but along a broad range of mobile devices."
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Audience maintains that is developing "brain-like" technologies that allow mobile devices to deliver better voice quality for clear conversations in nearly any setting, higher accuracy and performance for speech recognition services and enhanced audio for multimedia recording and playback, including mobile video and music.
The real potential for the technology, according to Santos, is to enable voice command interfaces for all types of electronics. The company has started to gain design wins in PCs and automobile electronics—sooner than it expected—according to Santos.
Santos envisions a not-so-distant future in which we interface with our PCs, cars, TVs and virtually every other electronic product by using our voices to bark orders at them. Audience's intelligent voice technology is particularly well suited to this task because it can recognize and process voice commands even in noisy environments, Santo said.
Touch screen interfaces have exploded in popularity because of the improvement they provide in ease and convenience. But what could be easier or more convenient than hands-free voice commands? We are closing in an era where we interface with our electronics with our voices, even from the other side of the room or the cockpit of a vehicle going 60 miles per hour, like Jean-Luc Picard ordering a cup of tea.
Of course, voice command interfaces have already gained traction in some areas, but that's only the tip of the iceberg.
"We are really just at the beginning of voice and auditory intelligence in user interfaces," Santos said. "Voice is going to have a very significant role as user interface comparable to that of touch not just in phones but along a broad range of mobile devices."
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GREAT-Terry
10/28/2012 10:19 PM EDT
Voice command is a very good stuff. However, the Siri now in iPhone is still far from the real voice command. As a non-English speaker, I found the Siri can't recognise my command almost 90% of the time. While Apple developed a version of Siri with my mother tongue, it still can't do a good job recognising my command. This time, I'm sure it is not because of my pronunciation or intonation. It is just the technology not mature enough! I hope one day I can really command my gadgets fully with voice!
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SylvieBarak
10/29/2012 4:28 PM EDT
Having seen Audience's technology demoed a couple of times, I have to say I don't think the firm really needs Apple to make or break it. It's great technology, which produces good results and has plenty of other design wins.
EE Times video of Audience demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AegzOrWoNdE
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