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More Details of iPhone OS 3.0 'Voice Control' Emerge
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Other phones have NOT had true voice-recognition...
some phones ask you to record a unique sample for each contact for example "call my wife" and then analyses that recording and attaches that to the contact . so simply you have to "set up" each person you want to use with "voice dail" now True Voice-recognition analyses and convert it to text and then do the command ... now thats a big difference .
if Apple introduces voice-recognition it will be the advertised as TRUE Voice-recognition and not "Baby-recognition" as most other phones uses ..
now some phones has "real"-voice-recognition but its badly implemented and partly i think its because of the poor CPU in most handheld -devices ..
Apple will probely use OpenCL to boost the CPU and will result in a bether foundation for True Voice-Recognition
The realy realy cool thing is that the Combination of Voice-recognition, Voice-Synthesis and Video Chat will make it possible for People that is Blind or deaf to use the iphone .. Now that is cool ..
Well, I hope somebody is intelligent and creates a translation app based on Jibbler. It should function like this:
- I say a word in a foreign language
- the iPhone shows or says the meaning in my mother tongue
Just imagine the jump in productivity if you were reading an article and could translate unknown words simply "on the read". No need to type in the word and tap serval times, which takes you out of the focus.
- I say a word in a foreign language
- the iPhone shows or says the meaning in my mother tongue
Just imagine the jump in productivity if you were reading an article and could translate unknown words simply "on the read". No need to type in the word and tap serval times, which takes you out of the focus.
How about universal translator?
I would love to see the Iphone be able to translate calls in real time.
Imagine you are calling someone in Mexico and you dn't speak spanish. The phone allows you to speak english and they here perfect spanish on the other end. They speak spanish and you hear english.
Heck, eventually we could have one of the ultimate trek tools, the universal translator.
Perhaps a wire less 1 ear bud attachment that takes people's words in real time and translates them into our native tongue.
It would take a very advanced software program that would take up a lot of memory and would probably require a quad core CPU, (for the phone translator) and an 8 core CPU for the universal translator, but I am sure we will have it by 2012 or so.
I would love to see the Iphone be able to translate calls in real time.
Imagine you are calling someone in Mexico and you dn't speak spanish. The phone allows you to speak english and they here perfect spanish on the other end. They speak spanish and you hear english.
Heck, eventually we could have one of the ultimate trek tools, the universal translator.
Perhaps a wire less 1 ear bud attachment that takes people's words in real time and translates them into our native tongue.
It would take a very advanced software program that would take up a lot of memory and would probably require a quad core CPU, (for the phone translator) and an 8 core CPU for the universal translator, but I am sure we will have it by 2012 or so.
Whew, looks like they did some spring cleaning in this thread.
I really like that phone call translator concept. But, unless you spoke clearly, you'd have to have some pretty wicked A.I. to understand the complexities of voice inflection, sarcasm, slang, jargon, etc. I can see how something said on one end, even with google style translation could come out with the wrong meaning on the other handset. I think this jibbler thing is going to be more of a stepping stone (second tier?) to things down the road.
I really like that phone call translator concept. But, unless you spoke clearly, you'd have to have some pretty wicked A.I. to understand the complexities of voice inflection, sarcasm, slang, jargon, etc. I can see how something said on one end, even with google style translation could come out with the wrong meaning on the other handset. I think this jibbler thing is going to be more of a stepping stone (second tier?) to things down the road.
W1llK you are correct:
Translator phone will require a very intelligent AI and a **** load of processor speed to be able to do what I just described.
Also recall that Apple will only add something to the Iphone once it is perfect.
This means that a Translator phone would require something like 512 GB of memory because 10% of that is going to need to be the OS, which will be a super smart AI that interacs with the user via voice recognition and motions sensing.
It will also probably require a lot of parellel processing, meaning a quad core CPU.
To do a total Universal translator, one which allows for face to face communication between people of different languages would require even more nuance and thus probably require an Octacore CPU each core running 2 GHz and 1 TB of memory, because the OS AI would be 100 GB in size.
The power drain would be 3X that of the current Iphone meaning a super battery would need to be used to give the expected battery life.
Overall I expect the time frame for Voice control on the Iphone to be the following:
2009: Voice recognition introduced, runs only a few apps
2010: More sophisticated Voice recognition allows for navigating the main features of the Iphone.
2011: Basic Translator Phone debuts, can't understand slang but correct grammar is perfectly translated.
2012: Perfect Translator Phone, slang and all is translated as if by a human translator.
2013: Face to face universal translator mode debuts, limited to only a handful of languages
2014: The repetoire of languages is increased to include all major languages.
2015: The universal translator of Star Trek arrives: All human languages can be translated with 99% accuracy in real time communication between individuals.
2016: The super intelligent Iphone is sent as an ambassador to the middle east and devises a solution to the Isreali/Palestinian problem. Peace is finally brought to the middle east
Translator phone will require a very intelligent AI and a **** load of processor speed to be able to do what I just described.
Also recall that Apple will only add something to the Iphone once it is perfect.
This means that a Translator phone would require something like 512 GB of memory because 10% of that is going to need to be the OS, which will be a super smart AI that interacs with the user via voice recognition and motions sensing.
It will also probably require a lot of parellel processing, meaning a quad core CPU.
To do a total Universal translator, one which allows for face to face communication between people of different languages would require even more nuance and thus probably require an Octacore CPU each core running 2 GHz and 1 TB of memory, because the OS AI would be 100 GB in size.
The power drain would be 3X that of the current Iphone meaning a super battery would need to be used to give the expected battery life.
Overall I expect the time frame for Voice control on the Iphone to be the following:
2009: Voice recognition introduced, runs only a few apps
2010: More sophisticated Voice recognition allows for navigating the main features of the Iphone.
2011: Basic Translator Phone debuts, can't understand slang but correct grammar is perfectly translated.
2012: Perfect Translator Phone, slang and all is translated as if by a human translator.
2013: Face to face universal translator mode debuts, limited to only a handful of languages
2014: The repetoire of languages is increased to include all major languages.
2015: The universal translator of Star Trek arrives: All human languages can be translated with 99% accuracy in real time communication between individuals.
2016: The super intelligent Iphone is sent as an ambassador to the middle east and devises a solution to the Isreali/Palestinian problem. Peace is finally brought to the middle east
If it is True recognition it's probably not going to be enough for dictation. But maybe dictation is not a great idea for email or TXT anyway. Still If the phone could read your messages to you then have the option speak a response from say a small list of user defined replies that would rock.
After all you know the replies are in your list and controlled, otherwise You'd still have to pull the phone out of your pocket to check it before sending.
Translator phone will require a very intelligent AI and a **** load of processor speed to be able to do what I just described.
Also recall that Apple will only add something to the Iphone once it is perfect.
This means that a Translator phone would require something like 512 GB of memory because 10% of that is going to need to be the OS, which will be a super smart AI that interacs with the user via voice recognition and motions sensing.
It will also probably require a lot of parellel processing, meaning a quad core CPU.
To do a total Universal translator, one which allows for face to face communication between people of different languages would require even more nuance and thus probably require an Octacore CPU each core running 2 GHz and 1 TB of memory, because the OS AI would be 100 GB in size.
The power drain would be 3X that of the current Iphone meaning a super battery would need to be used to give the expected battery life.
Overall I expect the time frame for Voice control on the Iphone to be the following:
2009: Voice recognition introduced, runs only a few apps
2010: More sophisticated Voice recognition allows for navigating the main features of the Iphone.
2011: Basic Translator Phone debuts, can't understand slang but correct grammar is perfectly translated.
2012: Perfect Translator Phone, slang and all is translated as if by a human translator.
2013: Face to face universal translator mode debuts, limited to only a handful of languages
2014: The repetoire of languages is increased to include all major languages.
2015: The universal translator of Star Trek arrives: All human languages can be translated with 99% accuracy in real time communication between individuals.
2016: The super intelligent Iphone is sent as an ambassador to the middle east and devises a solution to the Isreali/Palestinian problem. Peace is finally brought to the middle east
October 2012, Perfect Translator Phone is jailbroken and the Klingon language pack made available. Interstellar peace achieved before the middle east.
You're right about that. Whenever this sort of thing has been implemented in the past, it usually ends in "Epic Fail". But from the way it is described, and pending they figure out an intelligent prompt for activating voice commands, this appears to be a pretty solid foundation. We'll just have to wait and see how far they try to push it when it is released (if ever).
As a thought - what would people like/ most likely to use if they did have voice recognition, voice control, voice synthesis on their iPhone?
Second point - Nuance - owns T9 and Dragon Naturally Speaking : How long before you have the hardware to run it or something similar on an iPhone?
Your iPhone could hear you speaking thousands of words, and use those for the training and adaptation /improvement aspects of the voice recognition for example. Or offload speech recognition to a server if it was not needed in real time.
Second point - Nuance - owns T9 and Dragon Naturally Speaking : How long before you have the hardware to run it or something similar on an iPhone?
Your iPhone could hear you speaking thousands of words, and use those for the training and adaptation /improvement aspects of the voice recognition for example. Or offload speech recognition to a server if it was not needed in real time.
