In the not too distant future, your smartphone will be able to hear you and respond to you, even in standby mode. Over the corresponding technology company Nuance Communications operates a number of developers of mobile chips. The company said that they are working on a new kind of hardware passive technology that allows even the sleeping smart phone to listen to voice commands, without spending too much with the battery.
The company Nuance Communications has long been engaged in speech technology. In its portfolio of technology Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows, and Dragon Dictate for Mac, in addition, it is assumed that it was she who provides the background is for Apple Siri and dictation system head for the Apple Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
At present, many smart phones, including the iPhone and many Android-devices, already offer voice recognition, but in order for this feature to work, the unit itself must be activated, and the corresponding voice application to run. In Nuance say that they intend to make the voice functionality is always available, even when the unit is asleep and the program for the voice is not running. In Nuance say in the way of solutions there are several issues that remain to be solved.
The main problems related to the optimization of energy consumption in sleep mode, and also with how to teach voice command smartphone to distinguish from the background noise, as well as how to teach smart phones to respond to the voice of the user, and not all the other people in the room or on the street .
