Voice Recognition

Mishaal Rahman reports on Google's efforts at speech to text .

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Windows Voice Recognition Commands

Microsoft has published the speech recognition commands understood by Windows 10.

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Voice Interaction and the Future of Computing

Adam Dorfman suggests that voice interaction is a wave of the future, and encourages Microsoft to continue promoting Cortana.

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The Future of the User Interface

Mike Elgan suggests that the future of the user interface will be voice and in-the-air gestures .

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Ubi Voice Interface

Mark Gibbs heaps praise on Ubi , a voice interface to home equipment on the Internet of Things.

Gibbs does note that it typically takes eight seconds for an Ubi voice request to result in a local action, ascribing this to network delays between the Ubi device, the Ubi server, and the commanded server and device. &nbps; Gibbs also reports that often Ubi either cannot understand a request, or misinterprets a fragment of ambient conversation as a command.

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Voice Recognition Being Pursued With Neural Networks

Sharon Gaudin reports on the work of Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist for the search engine Baidu. Ng is developing neural networks which should allow computers to interpret human spoken requests accurately . The goal is to allow people who cannot afford traditional computers data retrieval capabilities over their mobile phone.

A concern about a search engine as your primary information source is that filter bubbles can develop, either due to the algorithm being used, or due to selected presentation by the database company.

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Voice Recognition In HTML5

Glenn Shires reports that HTML5 will allow voice recognition by Web pages. His page includes a brief demo video.

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