“Star Trek” has a rosy view of the future where hunger and want are historic, and computers listen to users to input information. To access a computer you say “computer,” and then give your command or ...

In part one of this two-part article, we discussed the recent re-evolution and technological improvements of speech interactive voice response (IVR) technology as well as a number of the ways that ...

But those types of interfaces could be the tip of the iceberg. A whole new set of interfaces are in the works at various stages of research and development. At Microsoft Research, for example, I have ...

Combining voice recognition and natural language understanding to create effective speech interfaces for the world’s largest Internet market. Stroll through Sanlitun, a bustling neighborhood in ...

Speech recognition specialist VoxGen has been selected to add speech interface technology to a system, developed for the Department of Defense by Rochester Institute of Technology, which provides for ...

Figure 1 – The role of voice activation However, this important voice-activation step requires a few critical characteristics: Extremely fast response time . Since it basically competes with a button ...