Watch Out Siri: Amazon Buys Voice Recognition Technology

[JMcEntegart]

Is Amazon readying a Siri competitor?

Watch Out Siri: Amazon Buys Voice Recognition Technology : Read more

 

[Guest]

they will use it to bash Apple.

 

[NightLight]

good!

 

[STravis]

According to everyone here, SIRI is a gimmick - why is is Amazon going after a gimmick?

 

[fazers_on_stun]

Sigh. "Voice" recognition is usually defined as recognizing (identifying) the speaker. SPEECH recognition is usually defined as recognizing what is being said. Not to be too anal about it, but each term is pretty well defined in the tecnhology by now, so please don't go messing it up .

What would be great would be having both, so that no more passwords etc needed to access a secured device.

 

[Parsian]

does anybody know how I can connect myself to IBM's Watson? Watson is far worthy companion and useful.

 

[inthere]

What happened to Iris?

 

[bystander]

From what most the article talked about, it seems more inline with what Android has had for a while now. Speech to text is not really what makes Siri special. It's the understanding of what is said then doing or giving a response to it is what is unique.

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]bystander[/nom]From what most the article talked about, it seems more inline with what Android has had for a while now. Speech to text is not really what makes Siri special. It's the understanding of what is said then doing or giving a response to it is what is unique.[/citation]
Prolly 1000 little Chinese typing furiously answers so Siri can take credit for it's "intelligence". LOL.
Look, speech recognition has been around since Dragon Naturally Speaking, if not even before that. Nothing new here. Any so-called intelligent servers (it's not your phone) that process the requests are based on recognizing key words, like "weather" for instance, and delivering the answer most likely to match (based on your location and some other key words in that phrase). That's why straight questions give you straight answers about 90% of the time, while tricky questions (and the remainder 10%) get some ridiculous answers instead.
Of course, all this chat between your phone and the servers, not to mention location services and other involved, tax your data plan and your battery time. Recently Apple said it solved the battery bug present in latest iOS, but in reality it did not, at least not until some of these services are stopped; combine that with the more powerful hardware compared to prior iPhones (that will require more juice, too), and you get back to thermodynamics' law: can't create energy out of nothing.

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]inthere[/nom]What happened to Iris?[/citation]
AFAIK, is alive and well. I have installed it, but the novelty wore off.

 

[bystander]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]Prolly 1000 little Chinese typing furiously answers so Siri can take credit for it's "intelligence". LOL.Look, speech recognition has been around since Dragon Naturally Speaking, if not even before that. Nothing new here. Any so-called intelligent servers (it's not your phone) that process the requests are based on recognizing key words, like "weather" for instance, and delivering the answer most likely to match (based on your location and some other key words in that phrase). That's why straight questions give you straight answers about 90% of the time, while tricky questions (and the remainder 10%) get some ridiculous answers instead. Of course, all this chat between your phone and the servers, not to mention location services and other involved, tax your data plan and your battery time. Recently Apple said it solved the battery bug present in latest iOS, but in reality it did not, at least not until some of these services are stopped; combine that with the more powerful hardware compared to prior iPhones (that will require more juice, too), and you get back to thermodynamics' law: can't create energy out of nothing.[/citation]

Given that the IA of it all happens on the server, I have my doubts about how much it actually taxes your system. They could even have the voice recognition happen on the device, then have it figure out the correct response on the server.

I'm not really sure how much it taxes your data plan (I don't have Siri to test).

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]bystander[/nom]Given that the IA of it all happens on the server, I have my doubts about how much it actually taxes your system. They could even have the voice recognition happen on the device, then have it figure out the correct response on the server.I'm not really sure how much it taxes your data plan (I don't have Siri to test).[/citation]
That's exactly what I said it happens; the data is being used when the phone is always in "stand-by" mode with the servers, ready to be used at a moment notice, so you don't have to launch anything (or almost anything). Problem with Apple is, they are never really transparent in terms of what services are being run continuously in the background, but to my understanding they have implemented a "fix" where Siri is not always-on by default anymore; this was supposed to improve battery life. According to forums, mixed results; people that turn off certain services get better results this way, while others that do not do that get same results, or even worse, according to some angry users.
This is info from the forums, just Google some of it.

 

[Guest]

If you could change the siri voice to any celebrity, who would you change it to? Morgan Freeman? Snoop Dogg? Sean Connery?

http/www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/m9zgm/if_you_could_have_your_own_celebrity_siri_voice/

 

[Guest]

Buying voice recognition technology doesn't mean you'll be able to take on Siri. What makes Siri so awesome is how well it was marketed, and competitors first have to acknowledge that and learn from Siri before they can copy her. Read more:
3 Lessons Siri Can Teach You About Marketing!
http/blog.sfcopywriter.com/2011/10/25/3-lessons-siri-can-teach-you-about-marketing/

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Screw that. How about "Thought Recognition" ? Hey I'm sure it's possible. As a song begins, "I talk through my eyes, the words pouring out." I bet our eyes say more than what we think they say.

 

[ericburnby]

I use Siri all the time and don't have any battery problems. Quit trying to make something out of nothing. It's already been noted the average Siri request takes about 60Kb of data, so it's not going to eat up your data plan. Nor is it going to eat your battery by sending large amounts of data. I don't buy the "standby" idea either since my phone battery is about the same before and after the update. There's something else happening with the batteries.

 

[leper84]

[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]Screw that. How about "Thought Recognition" ? Hey I'm sure it's possible. As a song begins, "I talk through my eyes, the words pouring out." I bet our eyes say more than what we think they say.[/citation]

Thought recognition would tear our society apart- can you imagine how many times a day someone is in a meeting at work or a couple is on a date when their phones randomly begin playing porn?

 

[pcpcs]

Doesn't look like anything special to me!

 

[jms22]

Hopefully all these voices on people cell phones will tell them TO GET A JOB and stop bickering about which phone is the best or has the best technology. Who cares?...make your call, keep it short and STFU.

 

[Goldengoose]

[citation][nom]STravis[/nom]According to everyone here, SIRI is a gimmick - why is is Amazon going after a gimmick?[/citation]
Because gimmick's make money.