Friday, April 20, 2012

CAN PLACING 90% OF THE MOBILE TECHNOLOGY ON SPEECH RECOGNITION BE A GOOD TURNOUT?

The number of mobile phones existing at present is trillions and trillions owned by billions and billions of people. The mode and applications put on mobile phones are transforming and improving gradually. One factor that has caught my attention on the mobile industry is the Speech Recognition.

Speech being an important factor in oral communication has been implemented in the mobile technology, although, it is still a complex problem to manifest up until now. 

Speech recognition is the translation of spoken words into text. Certain mobile devices have the ability to do this function. There are technologies that are speaker-independent, that do not require any training, and those that are speaker-dependent (require training). 


Literally, in real life, man (not animals or plants) is the one with the ability to translate spoken words into written through his intelligence. But then again, specialists are trying to create living from non-living. Over years, they have tried to invent machines that can acquire the intelligence of a man (artificial intelligence). Mobile device being a machine as well, it is being trained to have certain intelligence, in other words follow human made rules. The success on that is perceived in few types like smartphones.

With speech recognition, the mobile device can recognize the identity of who is speaking. Its accuracy still varies due to different factors. Not all mobile devices have the same functionality and certain speeches can have close similarity which brings inconsistency. Through years, speech recognition has not only benefited the development of technology but also the people who are disabled. For those who are deaf, they can access spoken information into written format using the mobile devices, although, another technique has lived over the years; sign language.

All in all, speech recognition has not fully impacted with a bang! For authentication, there are still contradictions with voice detections on identifying the right user and its poor usage on certain areas like recording ones voice to use it for sabotage.

Yet again, it is amusing in the entertainment department, where users interconnect with their games through speech instead of clicking and pressing buttons. But that is me; there is the good sense of it and the bad sense. I leave it to you to visualize it!

MY ONLY POINT AT ISSUE IS:
Can placing 90% of the mobile technology on speech recognition be a good turnout?

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