Will voice control become our primary user interface?
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Voice control and voice interfaces have begun to permeate all cutting-edge consumer device categories. Advances in speech recognition algorithms and AI accelerator hardware mean that the technology can be used even in power- and cost-constrained applications, such as smart home devices.
From a user perspective, the drivers behind voice control of smart home devices are clear.
“Ease of use and convenience are the main drivers right now,” said Alireza Kenarsari-Anhari, CEO of PicoVoice. “It’s easy to imagine you yelling at your home office coffee maker from your desk when you want a cup of coffee, or giving orders to your tumble dryer while holding a basket of wet clothes.
Kenarsari-Anhari: “I see voice as a development interface — if you can build your GUI or website without coding, maybe using WordPress, the next step is to build voice interfaces in a similar way. Shepherd is empowering product managers and UX designers to prototype and iterate quickly, but our goal is to expand its target user base.”
While it is entirely possible to develop natural language processing models and implement them without specialized software, this approach is not for everyone.
“Of course you can — Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all done it, it’s a matter of whether the company has the resources, the commitment to build an organization around it, and the ability to wait a few years.”
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In an interview last summer, Syntiant CEO Kurt Busch said voice is becoming the preferred interface for the next generation of technology users.
Kurt Busch describes this future through the lens of his youngest child, who is too young to read but not write, yet uses the voice function of his smartphone to text with friends.
Busch: “His older brothers and sisters would text, but his generation had cell phones a few years before them, and over time, for his generation and younger generations, their default interface is to talk to it.”
Busch believes voice will be the "touch screen of the future," with on-device processing delivering fast, responsive interfaces first on devices with a keyboard or mouse, and then in white goods.
As AI technology continues to advance, conversational AI is becoming a key tool for freeing your hands and improving productivity. Will voice eventually become the default user interface for most consumer electronics?
It certainly seems to be the case. This is made possible by the emergence of advanced, efficient AI voice control algorithms that enable developers to easily integrate voice, as well as a growing ecosystem of energy- and cost-effective hardware solutions.
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