- (ANI) -- Now look forward to a blurring of the distinction
between work life and home life with the evolution of new technology.
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- Using phone numbers, remote controls and computer keyboards
will seem quaint within a decade as new capability turns human speech into
accurate, efficient computer code, says Lawrence R. Rabiner, associate
director of the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) at Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey.
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- "We are rapidly approaching the point where entering
data to devices by voice - regardless of language or accent - will be as
accurate and efficient as entering it by keypad or mouse. When this happens,
another wall between humans and machines will fall. The idea of 'going
to work' to get things done will change to 'getting things done' no matter
where you are," said Rabiner.
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- In an overview of speech processing, "The Power
of Speech," in the journal Science, Rabiner points out that life at
home will change, too, as operating the family entertainment center becomes
a matter of pointing at it and saying, "find me a good classical music
station".
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- He explained that new abilities to compress and transport
massive amounts of computer code without using excessive network capacity
will help usher in this new age of voice control.
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- "There's no room for a keypad when the device you're
controlling is as small as a single key. Voice control has an advantage
here because it requires virtually no physical space and we always carry
our voices with us," he said. For security, new speech verification
technologies will be able to analyze voices and restrict use of devices
to intended users only.
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- Rabiner expects to see the following voice-control scenarios
evolving over the next few years: Telephone calls made by name, not number.
Intelligent voice-controlled communications agents, ssentially nonintrusive
network-based robots, will place phone calls, track down the people we
want to reach and let us now whether these people want to talk to us. Voice-controlled
agents will help us find deals on merchandise, remind us about appointments
and birthdays.
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