Voice Recognition technology and its growing influence
Speech Recognition technology has revolutionized the face of commerce with the use of home appliances. It has taken center stage, but is it different from entering a query in the search engines? Let us see the reasons for its generalization and its adoption.
What is voice recognition
The technology works mainly by analyzing sounds related to automatic natural language processing (NLP). It is a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand, interpret and manipulate human language. Natural language processing derives its meaning from human languages by relying on machine learning techniques.
Reasons for the generalization of voice recognition technology and its adoption
No conversation is exploited properly if it does not have a faster rate of information transmission. Speech recognition not only fills this void, but also brings together all of the faster means of information dissemination mechanisms under the common roof of digital transformation.
The following reasons have contributed to the development and widespread use of voice recognition technology.
- Makes phone banking safer and more convenient
- Use of voice activated robots
- Better for producing texts than typing words from a keyboard
- The perfect way to relieve some of the travel hassles and real-time translation
- Rebuild conversations from videos
1) Makes telephone banking safer and more convenient
Fraudsters or hackers can guess and access your bank PIN and password, but they cannot reproduce your voice. The AI-based voice assistant is sensitive enough to detect if someone is imitating or playing a recording. Thus, realizing the benefits of voice recognition for banking, many banks around the world are turning to voice recognition to make the telephone banking experience convenient and secure.
2) Use of voice activated robots
Chat through text has its limit. Voice-activated robots have faster response times than chatbots. In addition, simple robotic text often lacks personalized feelings, which makes communication boring and sometimes difficult. Talking to a voice-activated AI robot offers a completely different experience. It's so satisfying and real that you might think you're having a conversation with a friend. Such a solution is enriched with a voice that eliminates the usual feeling of talking to a single machine.
In addition to everything, the voice-controlled chatbot provides rich, correct and instant information.
3) Better to produce texts than typing words from a keyboard
A large majority of users today spend huge hours texting on their smartphones. But the miniature touch keyboard of a smartphone can be slow and frustrating to use, especially when the user wants to compose a long message. Thus, given the number of times users spend on smartphones and other mobile devices, it remains important to design an efficient out-of-office text entry method that can significantly reduce user frustration and improve efficiency.
Recent advances in speech recognition (thanks to the advent of deep learning models and arithmetic) offer a solution to this problem. A recent study by the University of Washington and Stanford University have found that a voice recognition system was better for producing text than typing it on a keyboard. Study found that speeds for entering text, in words per minute (WPM), using speech were about 3.0 times faster than keyboarding for English (161.20 vs. 53 , 46 WPM).
4) Ideal way to reduce certain inconveniences related to travel and real-time translation
Among many elements that define our travel experience, language occupies a central place. It is the main means of communication. Speech or voice recognition has played an important role in improving this mode of communication by translating between languages. For example, Skype Translator, an application uses the wonders of Machine Learning to listen and learn your spoken and written patterns. Thanks to its ability to translate text into more than 60 languages, it can help you land in a linguistic comfort zone, especially when you are far from home on a distant land.
5) Rebuild conversations from videos
Innovations in voice recognition could prove beneficial in revolutionizing the way criminal trials are conducted. For example, decoding what is said on CCTV footage at a crime scene could provide essential information about how a crime was committed, or indicate other suspects. Researchers at the University of East Anglia are testing visual speech recognition technology that could reconstruct conversations (recognizing the appearance and shape of human lips) captured on video itself in the absence of sound. This has remained one of the most difficult problems in artificial intelligence and, as such, has attracted the attention of researchers.
One of the main known advantages of voice recognition technology is its ability to allow visually impaired people the same access as those who are not visually impaired.
In the days to come, we could only expect voice recognition and artificial intelligence to become more sophisticated in the future. Hundreds of companies are already experimenting with integrating their products and services with digital voice assistants.
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