Intel: Voice Recognition Will Phase Out Touch

[chiefbox]

Intel, correct me if I'm wrong - humans still have hands with fingers!! That is the issue with intel, and other monopolistic companies.... they tell you "WHAT" technology you need, instead of 'WHY" they're innovating.

I personally, don't not want every one with a device around me having to talk to their devices in public, can you imagine how noisy it will be. Besides, I want privacy. I use voice to interact with my phone and it's great to have this technology and for companies to continue advancing its usefulness.

Great innovation is about 'WHY" not "WHAT" !!

 

[tleavit]

right, I can see guild Wars 2 now... "left right... left back DODGE, right left. FAWWWWWKKKK!!!!!

 

[hannibal]

Well, well... Win 8 and 9 are going to be touch based... Will the win 10 be voice controlled... That will be interesting. The example above is very good insigh of what is coming!

One more for the fun of it!

"Computer connect to the internet and open Tomshardware.com page!"
"Please can you repeat the command"
"Computer connect to the internet and open www.Tomshardware.com page!"
"Cannot contact www.tumbscardwire.com page. Check out the address, or internet connection"
"God dam it! open www.Tomshardware.com page and fast!"
"Does not recognice the comman "good damp it". Please clarify the command."
"BANG!"

 

[sonofliberty08]

there is a guy searching for porno, he have to shout at his computer, and then everyone look at him......

 

[razor512]

voice does not work because in the areas you are likely to use a a mobile device, it will not be very convenient to talk. Talking may be rude or not allowed, it may be too noisy. I have used an electrovoice re20 microphone in a noisy environment and even that nearly $500 microphone could not handle it. You are just not going to get good vocal pickup.

It will also slow input as sometimes touching something or pushing a button is just faster than shouting out a few words. Furthermore, voice recognition requires an expanded frequency response which will require more expensive and larger microphones. Furthermore it is just less convenient as the vocal commands can not be enabled at all times or if you are having a conversation it will cause the phone to go crazy.

What you would likely see with voice control is either you having to hold a button on your phone before talking, or constantly pressing a button on a headset in order to give vocal commands.

 

[ivanto]

Siri and Google have nearly perfect voice recognition. I still prefer to use touch/mouse/keyboard because it's a faster input and "input correction" method.
-IvanTO

 

[CaedenV]

[citation][nom]esrever[/nom]Why can't we just have it controlled by our brainwaves?[/citation]
You can! Look up Emotiv, it is pretty damn cool! And not terribly expensive either... just need to make standard game and windows APIs so that everything functions fluidly.

I would love to have the option for a voice controlled PC... but the issue is not voice commands, the issue is AI.
To make for a more natural expierence I need to speak something more than just commands to the computer. On my phone I can say something, then it goes out to the internet, picks out the command words, and applies that to an action on the phone... that is not good enough. I need to be able to tell my device an abstract thought, have it figure out what end result I desire, and then figure out a course of action (preferably the best course of action), and then execute it.

For example, at work today I had to go pick up a large donation. I would love to be able to tell my phone that I would like it to print the pickup request for today's donation, and notify the donor that I am on my way. My device (PC or phone, or whatever), needs to know that I am refering to something at work, that it is a donation scheduled for today, who is involved with said donation, know that the file I want printed is a document on an email attachment, try and find the phone number of the contact (in this case it is in the word document), call them, and then extrapolate an aproximate drive time from my office to their location and call, text, or email that time to them. I suppose it also needs to know where the printer is, and some other very basic fundamental things like that.

It is an immensely complex thing, and maybe AI never quite gets that advanced. But for true voice commands to work on a computing device (and be useful), it will have to do something along these lines. Voice recognition is here, devices can figure out the words that are being said (and even error correct for things it does not understand), the issue is that they cannot figure out what the words MEAN, or how to apply said meaning to anything functional. I can tell my phone "Call, mom, cell" and it knows to connect those words to commands, and then executes them. To make it useful I need to be able to tell my phone "later today when I am not busy I need to call my mom" and then later in the day when nothing is on the schedule, and the ambiant noise level is relatively quiet, and it knows that I am not moving, then it should chime in and say "would now be a good time to call your mom?" and I can say yes or no or tell it a more specific time, and then it will know what to do.

Sadly we are a long ways off from any such meaningful voice recognition technology. It may become available on heavier desktop technology 'soon' but for it to be useful we need it on our phones without the need to call home for a server to do all the translation, and that is going to be several years away.

 

[CaedenV]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]but I think Windows 9 will probably leverage voice activation in conjunction with gesture and touch with Kinect 2 as an input option.[/citation]
I am hoping it comes with the 'Blue' update this year, waiting for win9 will put MS way behind the tech curve.

 

[Tab54o]

This is an idiotic prediction. it might enhance some things but it wont be replacing ANYTHING. Intel of all people should know this.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]CaedenV[/nom]I am hoping it comes with the 'Blue' update this year, waiting for win9 will put MS way behind the tech curve.[/citation]
Because OSX and Linux are screaming up behind them with feature rich alternatives for voice, gesture and touch control?

 

[f-14]

my phone has had voice recognition since 2001, all i can say is some one has been stuck on this touch idea for porno reasons, 'touchies' just can't seem to let go when everyone else has.

 

[ubercake]

For privacy reasons, voice isn't the best option under all circumstances. Definitely can't fully replace all the benefits of touch.

Also, imagine the noise created if everyone in your office started speaking everything they once typed or touched?

 

[Srieya Devi]

The Future: Voice Recognition in Computers for more information


http://www.trendsor.blogspot.in/2012/12/the-future-voice-recognition-in.html



The revolution in computer world is going in step by step from large computers to personal computers, laptops and notebooks. The technology reached to touch screens and now the future of the computers is expected to have voice recognition for the computers. But the question here is that is voice recognition in computers really possible?... -

 

[Draven35]

"No, not that icon, the one to the left
Too far
now down
up
click that."

YAY!

 

[ubercake]

"No, not that icon, the one to the left
Too far
now down
up
click that."

YAY!

Sounds like foreplay!