Agreed! The HTC phone does a decent job on that but I wouldn't ever bother switching to one of those. It would be helpful having dictation on the iphone.
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Apple Patent Shows One Use for Nuance's Speech Recognition Technology
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Agreed! The HTC phone does a decent job on that but I wouldn't ever bother switching to one of those. It would be helpful having dictation on the iphone.
I like this
This technology is going to be super awesome.
Just imagine a call to 911? If you could make a full call without a single noise, how awesome it would be in different situations.
I think Apple is going right with this. I am all for it.
I [hypothetical] am in a lecture and cannot attend this call. Maybe, its a very very important call. Just because of this new tech., I would be able to attend it and get the important message.
I think its great. We just need a seamless integration; probably working with different languages. Apple, please do it.
This technology is going to be super awesome.
Just imagine a call to 911? If you could make a full call without a single noise, how awesome it would be in different situations.
I think Apple is going right with this. I am all for it.
I [hypothetical] am in a lecture and cannot attend this call. Maybe, its a very very important call. Just because of this new tech., I would be able to attend it and get the important message.
I think its great. We just need a seamless integration; probably working with different languages. Apple, please do it.
Forgot Problem Three
Problem Three: Unable to Communicate During an AT&T Call
A smartphone user may sometimes have to make or answer a phone call in an environment with little to no AT&T coverage, which could interfere with a phone conversation to a degree that the conversation is no longer intelligible to either conversing party. A user may try to scream into the phone in frustration, but the AT&T voice signal is still unintelligible...
Problem Three: Unable to Communicate During an AT&T Call
A smartphone user may sometimes have to make or answer a phone call in an environment with little to no AT&T coverage, which could interfere with a phone conversation to a degree that the conversation is no longer intelligible to either conversing party. A user may try to scream into the phone in frustration, but the AT&T voice signal is still unintelligible...
Wait ... noisy environment, so use speech-to-text? Huh?
What kind of audio processing technology do they have here?
If I'm in a room so noisy the person talking to me can't understand what I'm saying, I find that there's no way in hell traditional, existing, speech-to-text technology will understand it. I mean, yes, the computer can go through the various things sound pattern 'X' might have been and deduce that I must have said one particular thing, but that's generally only useful in highly-scripted situations (the only recognized commands being "Balance", "Transfer", or "LET ME TALK TO THE ********** OPERATOR PLEASE").
I mean, really, hasn't anyone else used voice-command software in the past ten years? It still sucks.
Note that Nuance is a key provider of corporate and small-device voice recognition software. If you think your car's sat-nav sucks, you are getting a glimpse at how well Nuance's tech works in a constrained device.
That all having been said, it has got to be a huge improvement over Apple's current voice-dialing tech, but I just can't see any other situation where voice commands would be the primary way I'd want to deal with my phone.
What kind of audio processing technology do they have here?
If I'm in a room so noisy the person talking to me can't understand what I'm saying, I find that there's no way in hell traditional, existing, speech-to-text technology will understand it. I mean, yes, the computer can go through the various things sound pattern 'X' might have been and deduce that I must have said one particular thing, but that's generally only useful in highly-scripted situations (the only recognized commands being "Balance", "Transfer", or "LET ME TALK TO THE ********** OPERATOR PLEASE").
I mean, really, hasn't anyone else used voice-command software in the past ten years? It still sucks.
Note that Nuance is a key provider of corporate and small-device voice recognition software. If you think your car's sat-nav sucks, you are getting a glimpse at how well Nuance's tech works in a constrained device.
That all having been said, it has got to be a huge improvement over Apple's current voice-dialing tech, but I just can't see any other situation where voice commands would be the primary way I'd want to deal with my phone.
Voice -> text for texting would be helpful while driving so its correct so you can avoid a bunch random auto-corrects that send stuff.
Innovation? I always vote yes! Off course I know it probably won't be flawless at first but it will get there...
In general what they can do is "convergence" of different kinds of messaging services. You can dictate an email, read the text of a voice mail message r send a "tweat" by voice. and any of all combinations....
Another odd use but it has been used is voice recognition that is transmitted as test and then re-created as voice at the receiving end. It was used to send voice over an ultra-low and width connection. I doubt Apple will do this.
This kind of stuff used to require big computers, was expensive. Now it seems like it's cheap. Maybe we should look at other computer science research done in the 1970's and 80's to see what will show up on the iPhone next.
Another odd use but it has been used is voice recognition that is transmitted as test and then re-created as voice at the receiving end. It was used to send voice over an ultra-low and width connection. I doubt Apple will do this.
This kind of stuff used to require big computers, was expensive. Now it seems like it's cheap. Maybe we should look at other computer science research done in the 1970's and 80's to see what will show up on the iPhone next.
Voice -> text for texting would be helpful while driving so its correct so you can avoid a bunch random auto-corrects that send stuff.
That's illegal in a number of states
I don't think they'd bother with it anymore for a reason of driving...Texting is about efficiently having multiple conversations with different people all at once. That's why "the kids" do it.
Nokia patents
Nokia has this for years, you just press the green key for a few seconds and give a voice command, very pratical, it also can read your emails with text to speech, in several languages, text messages and so on, open the browser, music player etc etc, and for noise, they have several mics in the phone so it can cancel the noise from the surroundings! Apple is really late on this, we used to have some good features on Mac OS 9, they promess other languages voice recognition in Mac OS X, but until now, NONE!
Nokia has this for years, you just press the green key for a few seconds and give a voice command, very pratical, it also can read your emails with text to speech, in several languages, text messages and so on, open the browser, music player etc etc, and for noise, they have several mics in the phone so it can cancel the noise from the surroundings! Apple is really late on this, we used to have some good features on Mac OS 9, they promess other languages voice recognition in Mac OS X, but until now, NONE!
Both of these 2 "problems" are complete nonsense!!
If you're in such a noisy environment (jackhammering is your job or leafblowing your lawn)...I have news for you...don't try to have a conversation with someone...whether on the phone or in person!!!
If you're in a meeting and you don't want to draw attention to yourself (meaning, you're supposed to be LISTENING and PAYING ATTENTION DURING THE MEETING)...I have news for you...don't answer the bleeping phone! Let it roll to that wonderful voicemail system and call the person back in 30 minutes! WTH is wrong with people these days?! The only time you should EVER consider answering the phone during a meeting is if it's your wife who's 9 months pregnant or a caller id stating "<your town> Police Department"
My god! Seriously!!
If you're in such a noisy environment (jackhammering is your job or leafblowing your lawn)...I have news for you...don't try to have a conversation with someone...whether on the phone or in person!!!
If you're in a meeting and you don't want to draw attention to yourself (meaning, you're supposed to be LISTENING and PAYING ATTENTION DURING THE MEETING)...I have news for you...don't answer the bleeping phone! Let it roll to that wonderful voicemail system and call the person back in 30 minutes! WTH is wrong with people these days?! The only time you should EVER consider answering the phone during a meeting is if it's your wife who's 9 months pregnant or a caller id stating "<your town> Police Department"
My god! Seriously!!
It will be the future, no doubt. Can't wait... but will have to, unfortunately.
They'll take another handful of years, or even a decade, to get a smooth voice recognition unless someone makes a breakthrough soon. It's tough to get the computer to figure out commands through all the hash. Part of the problem might be the microphones. Human hearing is helped by stereo listening, so a couple mics, one on either side, might help a little to compare one to another and break down the nuances, then separate out necessary voice/s.
If Apple did roll this out now or next year, it would be an instant hit. Very useful for all sorts of applications. Forget the obvious texting: dictation and transcription would be universal hits with millions.
This patent doesn't mean anything. Just an idea written down on paper.
Hate to break to ya but Apple didn't "invent" any of those. Glass was developed Gloria Glass, multitouch was made by Fingerworks, Retina Display was developed by LG, video chat and visual voice mail have been on phones for years, ect. The only thing different is the implementation.
It's all marketing, dude.
Now that's a sweet feature. I almost hope that Apple doesn't get this patented, so that MS can put it into Windows Phone 8.
It just might be you ARE the only one who feels that texting is inefficient...
Texting has lots of applications where a spoken conversation doesn't quite cut it.
Besides being in a totally noisy or totally quiet environment, you could be working and someone could leave you a text message so you get the information without having to answer the phone..
You might not have answered the phone, and someone might have to leave an important message.
You can send text messages to multiple people.
You can text to hide whatever noise there could have been in the background.
You can text to a voting system.
You can get updates of something from a text service.
and probably many more..
Not exactly sure why you think silly little things like patents would stop Microsoft.
Only when someone demonstrate on the stage during apple world conf. people will see its true purpose.