speech recognition
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Although creating virtual assistants has long been a dream of the speech and natural language technology community—realized with the commercial launches of Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa over a decade ago—these technologies have ultimately failed to achieve ubiquity or widespread adoption. The question is, why? In this blog post, I’ll explore the reasons behind this…
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I really appreciate when people try to give a simplified view of technology with the goal to let the general public understand what’s behind the hood, and how complex is, oftentimes, to make things works properly. That is the goal I had in mind when I embarked on the project of writing The Voice in the Machine. However, I believe,
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If I had to chose one of the areas of human-machine natural communication where we haven’t ben able to make any significant stride during the past decades, I would choose “general” language understanding. Don’t get me wrong. Language understanding per se has made huge steps ahead. IBM Watson‘s victory over Jeopardy! human champions is a testimony of
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There is a lot of talking about the performance of Apple’s Siri. An article appeared on the New York Times a few days ago brutally destroying Siri from the point of view of its performance, and others compare it with Google Voice Search. As a professional in the field, having followed Google Voice Search closely, knowing well the people who work
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Although speech recognition is getting better and better, it keeps making mistakes that often annoy us. Much more than humans would do in similar situations. And we have been trying to make it better for decades. What’s wrong with it? Scientists are constantly testing and trying to improve speech recognition in adverse conditions, such as
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Some of you may remember the Apple’s knowledge navigator video posted here. It was released in 1987 as a vision of a future tight integration of advanced technologies on a flat tablet computer. The computer in this entertaining vision clip sports a fancy Web-like interface, a realistic avatar, touch screen with gesture recognition, teleconferencing, speech
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Speech recognition is one of those technologies who have been around for a while, but have never become mature enough to be considered established and part of everyday’s life like, instead, digital cameras, retina displays, and bluetooth. However, for a few years now speech recognition technology has be “sort-of” working so as some of us
THE VOICE IN THE MACHINE 