The Future of Speech Technologies

prostoalex writes "PC Magazine is running an interview with two of the research leaders in IBM's speech recognition group, Dr. David Nahamoo, manager of Human Language Technologies, and Dr. Roberto Sicconi, manager of Multimodal Conversational Solutions. They mainly discuss the status quo of speech technologies, which prototypes exist in IBM Labs today, and where the industry is headed." From the article: "There has to be a good reason to use speech, maybe you're hands are full [like in the case of driving a car]. ... Speech has to be important enough to justify the adoption. I'd like to go back to one of your original questions. You were saying, 'What's wrong with speech recognition today?' One of the things I see missing is feedback. In most cases, conversations are one-way. When you talk to a device, it's like talking to a 1 or 2 year old child. He can't tell you what's wrong, and you just wait for the time when he can tell you what he wants or what he needs."

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When your hands are full..

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"There has to be a good reason to use speech, maybe you're hands are full [like in the case of driving a car]"

When they said "maybe you're hands are full" (btw, noticed the you're/your typo?) I admitt that the first example that went through my mind wasn't the case of driving a car.

Many people out here must know how it can be unconvenient to type with one hand, mostly when it's the left hand, and as for the car example, what would you need speech recognition for anyways, doing word processing while driving, or driving while you have both of your arms broken?