Happy Thanksgiving: This Year The Turkey Is Stuffed With Voice Biometrics
We at Speech Tech Blog wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we offer you a humble gift: The Talking Turkey Plush Toy. Just squeeze this this little fellow and hear him say “gobble, gobble, gobble” which, in Turkey-Language, translates roughly to “help, don’t kill me, please.” And of course [...]
Speech Recognition Remote Control
Ever feel like manually pressing the buttons on that remote control is too much work? Me too. Well, fear not, Gentle Reader: Things are about to get a whole lot easier. Oki Japan and a team from Waseda University are working on a speech recognition powered remote control that pulls a single target voice from [...]
Video Games: Tom Clancy’s End War Is Voice-Controlled
Computer and Video Game Publisher Ubisoft has released Tom Clancy’s End War, which is controlled by Speech Recognition Technology. Well, sort of. From a review on bit-tech.net: “The developer, Ubisoft Shanghai, has cheated a little though. Rather than use the software to recognise actual words, it is used to recognise the sounds that make up [...]
Rise Of The Machines: New Nintendo DS Product Teaches You To Cook, Features Voice Recognition
In what could be another step toward a future in which humans are enslaved to vindictive, super-intelligent robot masters, Nintendo has released a multimodal “interactive cooking coach” for Nintendo DS. Personal Trainer: Cooking features the electronic “DS Chef,” voice-recognition technology, two hundred forty recipes from around the world, and video cooking demonstrations. The product can [...]
Fish? Sex? What’s The Difference??
Now that Google has released Voice Search for it’s Google Mobile App for iPhone, reports of problems with the speech recognition are being reported. Evidently, Voice Search works really well in North America, but is posing some challenges for users Britain. For example, one user spoke a search for “fish,” only to retrieve the search [...]
