Voice recognition faster than text messenger
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Take the fastest human being able to use predictive phone text messaging, able to spell long sentences without any mistake. Take a voice recognition software able to handle human voice, and willing to show its supremacy. Let them meet each other. Who will win?
The computer. But for the first time.
The event was set at an exhibition sponsored by Nuance Communications, a voice recognition software company, reports AP. Both players need to spell “I’m on my way. I’ll be there in 30 minutes” and “The razor toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygo centrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”
Ben Cook, 18, known as the champion of text messaging in the US, took 29 seconds and 48 seconds to write both sentences. The Nuance software ran them for 8 seconds and 16 seconds respectively.
While this contest looks like Garry Kasparov playing chess against Deep Blue IBM computer, this time, this might be the turning point for voice recognition technologies. They’re getting accurate enough to allow people get rid of their touchpad. Combine this trend and the massive consumer demand to get a customizable cellphone and you end up with, yup, a touchless phone. Like those prototypes.
Oct 26, 2006 | By Nuno
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