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Nuance Launches Siri Rival "Nina"
redletterdave writes "Siri can send texts and emails, set alarms and reminders, surf the Web, ask questions, place calls, play music, and get directions. But would you trust Siri, or any of her similar rivals out there for Android, to pay your bank bill? Or report a lost card? Or set up an auto-payments for your bills? Even if you wanted to do these things, how does Siri even know you are who you say you are? Nuance has clearly thought about what's missing from the voice recognition department, and unveiled its own solution on Monday, called 'Nina.' The Nuance Interactive Natural Assistant, or NINA, is a cloud-based AI that can be enabled in most business and enterprise applications thanks to a set of APIs and an open SDK for iOS and Android. Nuance calls Nina 'a watershed of firsts for virtual assistants,' mainly because she is the 'first [VA] to understand what is said and who said it' using voice-ID authentication software. Unlike Siri, Nina can help users manage their bank accounts, book flights and hotels, oversee and manage their investments, and more."
User: Nina, what is my credit card balance?
Nina: Your credit card balance is $744.12
User: Nina, pay my credit card bill
Nina: Transferring $74,412.00 from checking to credit card.
Nina: Error. Insufficient funds in account.
Nina: Searching for alternative funding methods
Nina: Initiating Nigerian scam.
Nina: Email sending complete. Awaiting results.
User: Uh, abort! abort! abort!
Nina: Abort what?
The Cloud! I wonder what terms of service will govern the treatment, security, and disclosure of the exciting new personal information this delightful system will allow me to automatically send over the intertubes to Nuance, presumably from any application using their API?
Being data mined is so exciting, I just can't wait!
Where is the demo app download? Tech demos are all very nice, but real life is much harder to deal with reliably.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
has any non-us speaker actually used a nuance product (or any other voice recognition engine)?
none of them deal with even the slightest accent. hell they can't even get me the proper number when asking for a a contact on my phone, nuance can't even understand when i say "call" and often try to do a search on some garbled text
how they ever expect to be trusted for critical financial stuff is beyond me
If you knew the corporate history of Nuance, then I think you'd trust 'Nina' even less than 'Siri'.
I'm just looking forward to the youtube video where you get Siri and Nina beside one another and talking. Hoping it ends in a fight with Nina calling Siri a slut.
For sarcastic computers, I always liked Orac from Blake's 7.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?