Tipping Point
The speech recognition feature, Yahoo wants to consolidate its position as the central entry point to the mobile Internet. The application can be downloaded at de.m.yahoo.com/voice directly on supported mobile phones or through the iTunes store on iPhone. Voice control is Web 2.0 pioneer Tim O’Reilly even as Tipping Point “: the term referred to that moment in which something unique is the normal condition and a qualitative point marked. It is time to see phones to access the Internet, as first-class equipment and to dedicate not only as a possibility, content and applications, which were originally conceived with a keyboard and to be read a screen”, says O’Reilly. Also in the ICT industry expected impulse of the voice control: computer operated now always still primarily using a keyboard, which originated from the typewriter, as if each Button pulls out a mechanical stops. Even the line feed and carriage return alias carriage return is us remained, although so long no paper is transported. While phones have the revolution of the dial to the usually 3 x 4 keyboard made, standardized according to ITU E.
161, which was already in the 1970s. Even modern cell phones and Smartphones is abide on the dial keypad, either in mechanical design or as an icon representation on a”touch screen, white Luckie, Germany Chief of ICT specialists Aastra, which puts much emphasis on the usability of systems. The technology development is proceeding while rapidly, in the core, but always still traditionally. It was predictable that the keypad toast to its limits – at the latest with the widespread introduction of SIP telephony and SIP subscriber addresses. Unlike with professional table devices equipping mobile phones with alphanumeric keyboards occurs even, is not usually because of limited dimensions satisfactory.
There is the path to the language interface: the announcement by addresses or entries in the phone book in the normal form of the language. This is useful when driving or other activities that require both hands”Lady explained. Voice control will even more interesting view from SemanticEdge CEO Lupo Pape, if knowledge about the domain and dialog intelligence added. Then, one can speak of speech dialog systems. That’s what we implement with the personal assistant. To the areas of knowledge must be semantically processed and deposited dialogue strategies. It applies to model”the main use-cases, says Pape. A message from NeueNachricht. NeueNachricht is responsible for the content.