Voice Recognition for Mobile Phone: Vlingo
Vlingo Mobile, a new company just went live today with a beta version of its voice-powered interface for mobile phones that makes voice recognition easier to use and learns from its mistakes. With this interface, users can speak naturally, in any order of words they want, and can use Vlingo’s technology on almost any aspect of the mobile phone experience.
The application is Java-based and makes use of adaptive Hierarchical Language Models (HLMs). This means that the company has trained its speech engine on acoustics, pronunciation, grammar, and statistical language models—the ability to predict what words might be said together.
“The new technology that we’ve developed here basically allows all of those to be combined and scaled up to tens of millions of users” Grannan told Ars. That means the user can say anything they’d like and get the right results they need, such as “stones” versus “the Stones” versus “the Rolling Stones” into a mobile search box. “We’d like to be able to take any text box on a mobile phone and make it like a Google box, where your wording doesn’t matter,” he said.
[Via Arstechnica]
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