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Do you use voice recognition? What do you feel the benefits are? Have you considered the pros and cons of voice recognition?

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1. A Few Pros and Cons of Voice Recognition

Voice recognition technology enables hands-free operation, enhances accessibility for individuals with disabilities, offers time-saving features, supports multilingual communication, and provides convenience in daily activities, according to prospluscons.com. They further add the cons include privacy concerns, accuracy and misinterpretation, limited use in noisy environments, potential for security vulnerabilities, and accessibility barriers for non-native speakers.

I can really identify with privacy concerns. Besides the fact that the voice is listening in the environment, there is no privacy around others. That is most distracting for me. I do, however, use voice recognition for watching my television pictures. It's annoying to repeat myself because voice recognition often misunderstands me and gives unexpected results. So, I practice remembering to enunciate.

Beyond Voice Recognition:

2. Hands Free Driving

Beyond voice recognition is hands-fee driving. Although I will use cruise control I continue to keep my hands on the wheel. I am not quite on board with hands-free driving yet.

3. Digital Tools

Why are digital tools important? Digital tools make work faster and easier, they improve how companies operate and make decisions, they aid in decision-making, and much more according to digital-adoption.com. Are you aware that you are using digital tools? Some examples of digital tools include, Google workspace, Microsoft Office 365, Zoom, Video calls, chatting, sharing files, MailChimp, HubSpot, buffer, Shopify, One Drive, and YouTube, according to pwskills.com. Do you recognize any of these? I love Microsoft Office 365. Technology is advancing rapidly. The iPhone you purchase today can be outdated tomorrow.

Do you remember when iPhones came out? They were free. Now they are $1,000 or more. What was free is no longer free.

4. Security

How is voice recognition used for security? Research.aimultiple.com talks about a person’s speech to authenticate them. Users might be required to say their name aloud during log-ins rather than typing a password. They further added that speech biometrics can be used to authorize transactions and verify that they are authorized by the account owner.

5. Learning a New Language

Were you aware that voice recognition is used to teach a new language? Learning apps such as Babbel, Audio notes, Rocket languages, Rosetta Stone, and many more all use voice recognition. Fluentu.com talks about this. They further added that the app provides a flexible study option which means you can cram in a little extra speech practice whether you are waiting in line at the store or relaxing in bed.

6. History of Voice Recognition

The first voice recognition was designed by Bell Laboratories in 1952 and it could understand 9 digits spoken by a single person. Ten years later, IBM developed Shoebox, which could perform mathematical functions and process up to 16 words in English. G2.com talks about this. In the 1970s and 1980s (DARPA) the United States Department of Defense and Defense Advance Research Projects Agency launched the Speech Understanding Research (SUR) Program. This program gave birth to the Harpy speech system capable of understanding 1,000 words. In 1990 and 2000’s several applications like Dragon Dictate, Plain Talk, and Via Voice by IBM were launched. These applications were able to process nearly 80% of human speech. By 2009 Google launched Google Voice for IOS devices. Three years later, Siri was born. They further added that some of the companies that provide accurate voice recognition are Google voice, Open Text Corporation, LumenVox, Sestek, and Acapela Group.

7. Voice Recognition vs Speech Recognition

Is there a difference between voice recognition and speech recognition? Voice Recognition you will use with devices like Amazon Alexa or Google Dot, it listens to your voice in real-time and responds, it has limited functionality, usually restricted to specific tasks. Whereas (ASR) Automatic Speech Recognition recognizes speech. It uses natural language processing, it can accurately generate a transcript of audio, creating real-time captioning, but is not 100% accurate. Verbit.ai further states it can contain many errors although it is fast and inexpensive way to convert speech to text.

Whether you want it or not it appears it has been integrated into many facets of our lives. 1,000 or 100 years ago who would have thought? You may not use social media or even watch television, but many businesses are using this.

Also, have you noticed when using your gps (global positioning system) that some of the streets are mispronounced? For Example, Grand Blanc, Michigan is pronounced on the gps as (Grand Blonk) instead of Grand Blank. Clio, Road is pronounced (Klee- 0 Road instead of Kly-0 Road. I guess that is a subject for another post.

8. Online Banking

Does voice-enabled online banking exist? It sure does. According to some reports, banks in North America allocated over $20 billion in 2017 alone to incorporate voice recognition into their apps and services. Fireflies.ai further added that major payment companies like Venmo and PayPal, as well as banks like N26 and Bank of Canada, offer customers the option to process transfers and payments using voice assistants like Siri. I have found this to especially be true on the weekends, such as on Sunday. It has become increasingly rare to encounter a live person available for direct communication. It seems like that is a thing of the past. I truly miss talking to a live person on the weekend if I have a problem regarding my banking. At least some banks are open on Saturday just not on Sunday.

Source:

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