ibm vocal technologies

As asserts company IBM, the successes, achieved in its laboratories, are capable of making vocal technologies the part of daily life.

Visionaries and amateurs to make the forecasts of development technology have long time ago said to the different voices, that the contact with the computer and other electronic assistants with the aid of most customary and developed means from the arsenal of man : the speech is one of the key elements of further development of information texnologies.

For a long time the developers of the corresponding means blamed the shortage of computational resource; users, who had experience of contact with programs for the vocal introduction, rapidly became obvious the limitations of algorithms; both those and, etc converged on the opinion that to the general introduction of vocal interfaces it is thus far far. And here according to IBM, time is alien.

Presenting the new developments of the within the framework yearly measure IBM speech technology update day, company established that the vocal technologies were ready to become the part of daily activity and from now on begins the stage of their widespread introduction. With IBM are solidary important companies, which participated in the presentation.

Let us recall, its first product for the vocal introduction IBM it represented ten years ago. Since then much changed, in particular, as it is asserted, for specialists IBM it was possible to overcome the limitations, which were appeared on the early development stages, such, as the influence of noise and the impossibility to recognize the special features of dialects. As the first scale examples of the introduction of new technology the following projects were named:

Collaboration between IBM, Avoca semiconductor and All media guide : one of the most important suppliers of musical and entertaining content. It is assumed that it will make it possible to begin to operate the vocal technologies IBM embedded viaVoice in the control functions and search, realized in the entertaining electronic devices.
The company pioneer electronics is intended to include the technology IBM embedded viaVoice in the system of navigation AVIC-Z2. By the way, the system AVIC-Z2 will become the first, in which will be used the electronic atlas tele atlas multiNet, which contains the detailed digital maps of North America and the data base with 45 million addresses in USA.
Joint development IBM Alpine electronics : the onboard satellite navigator NVE-N872A. Those activated by the voice of the function of this system free hands and attention of driver, making possible for to be concentrated on the road situation. System support three languages : English, Spanish and French.

IBM vocal technologies

IBM VOCAL TECHNOLOGIES