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Voice Recognition for the Car
By john | February 1, 2006
Nice article this week from news.com that discusses the current and future states of voice recognition interfaces in cars. The main point of the article is that all of the car companies are investigating voice recognition in order to reduce the amount of attention drivers need to divert to other tasks while driving, such as changing music or looking for directions. In particular, natural-speech recongition (speaking conversationally with machines) will be important, as it will allow users to easily accomplish tasks without having to memorize specific words or menu items to accomplish a task.
Natural-speech recognition (or natural language processing), once ready for prime time, will be a huge boost for any human-machine interface, as it will allow humans and machines to interact in a more natural way. This will be extremely important for any cyberbonic-type system, as it will allow for a more robust and accessible multi-modal input for control over ,and interaction with, other devices in the system.
Topics: interfaces |