Does Speech Recognition Have Future?

Written by simeon-emanuilov | Published 2020/01/15
Tech Story Tags: speech-recognition | voice-control | google-voice-search | chatbots-and-voice-searches | voice | voice-based-interface | voice-input | alexa

TLDR The circle of speech recognition has been closing since the end of the 18th century. Speech is mainly used as part of the user interface to create predefined or custom voice commands. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an area where speech recognition software is up-and-coming. Almost half of consumers use voice search devices at least once a day. The market may have difficulties due to low speech or voice accuracy and speech disorders. The market research on speech recognition collects data about customers, marketing strategy, and competitors.via the TL;DR App

Voice recognition technology is another critical element of the voice search field. After several breakthrough innovations, the circle of speech recognition has been closing since the end of the 18th century. 
Thanks to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data, speech recognition can be used in a wide range of applications. 
It can understand 100 words per minute and is still used (though in an improved form) and is preferred by doctors for notation. 
Machine learning, like many other scientific discoveries, has brought about most breakthroughs in speech recognition in this century.

Great improvement and accuracy

The voice search application was powered by large amounts of training data and showed a significant improvement in the accuracy of previous speech recognition technologies. Despite the high degree of integration of word processing in general personal processing, asr did not record the expected increase in use in the area of ​​document creation. 
Increasing the processor speed on mobile devices has made speech recognition in smartphones practical. Speech is mainly used as part of the user interface to create predefined or custom voice commands. 
Technological advances are making language assistants stronger, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. To ensure robust speech recognition, artificial intelligence needs to better deal with challenges such as accents and background noise. 
And because consumers are becoming more and more comfortable talking with their phones, cars, smart home devices, etc. And are increasingly relying on the use of language, language technology is becoming the necessary interface to the digital world, and thus the competence in designing the language of creating voice interface applications enjoys more interest. 

Voice Recognition in IoT

Speech recognition can be integrated with smart devices: The Internet of Things (IoT) is an area where speech recognition software is up-and-coming. 
Thanks to voice recognition software built into IoT mobile applications, users can control smart devices using voice commands. As speech recognition resolutions become more and more reliable as companies continue to use the Internet of Things, better integration between them can be expected over the next five years. 
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a sphere where speech recognition software is up-and-coming. Various factors are responsible for the development of the global speech recognition and speech recognition market. 

How to use speech recognition today

According to Adobe Analytics Survey, speech recognition, which is used today in smart speakers and smartphones, is mainly used to search music, ask questions and then search online, maps and directions, weather forecasts, news, etc. 
However, the market may have difficulties due to low speech or voice accuracy and speech disorders. 
The primary purpose of this report is to gather information about the speech recognition industry and its forecasts until 2029. Predicting strong future growth in the speech recognition market in all geographical and product segments was the goal of our market analysis report. The market research on speech recognition collects data about customers, marketing strategy, and competitors. 

Challenges for the voice technologies

Given the development of new technologies, every year that pushes the boundaries of business, using digital marketing can be a challenge. 
One of these changes on the market is due to the widespread introduction of voice search technology and its impact on Internet use. 
As a result, it has affected search engine optimization, where compliance with the best SEO practices is now necessary for most companies. 
Voice Search launched by Google in 2011 was initially new rather than a feature that users relied on at the time. However, improvements in speech recognition technology have made voice search the most important part of search engine marketing. 
As voice search technology is continuously improving and expanding the capabilities of connected devices, digital marketers can use the latest voice search statistics to identify new trends that show how our search habits are changing. As of January 2018, the average number of voice searches per month is 1 billion. 
As speech recognition technology becomes more and more precise, providers are providing many new applications. Currently, almost half of consumers use voice search devices at least once a day. You can check one of the newest trends in the voice world - adding search functionality to your website with Voxpow. It is something trendy those days, and it is very promising and well designed.
Extensive testing and evaluation programs have been conducted for helicopters in the last decade, in particular in the United States Research and development in the field of avionics (AVRADA) and Royal Aerospace Establishment (RAE) in the United Kingdom. 
The results were encouraging, and voice applications included control of radiotelephones, adjustment of navigation systems, and control of an automatic delivery system. As with fighter planes, the main problem with helicopter speech is affecting pilot performance. 

Solve real-world problems

The benefits are clearly in improving reporting efficiency, namely significantly reducing reporting time, cost savings, and integration with the workflow of archiving and image communication (PAC) systems. 
Although speech recognition has brought about a fundamental change in radiological documentation and the associated increase in performance, a breakthrough in technology is required that will make the benefit curve even steeper. Radiology and the entire healthcare system are preparing for an even greater goal. 
Modern speech recognition systems use different combinations of many standard techniques to improve results over the basic approach described above. 
Examples are maximum mutual information (MMI), minimum classification error (MCE) and minimum telephone error (MPE). 
Language decoding (the term for what happens when a new statement appears in the system and the most likely source sentence needs to be calculated) would probably use the Viterbi algorithm to find the best path. Here you can choose between dynamically creating a combined hidden Markov model that contains both acoustic information as well as the speech model that statically connects them earlier (finite-state transducer or FST approach).

Written by simeon-emanuilov | Passionate about Software Development
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/01/15