Speak and spell with phonetic voice recognition
23.05.12
2012 could be remembered as the year when voice-controlled computers went mainstream. When Apple launched its new iPhone complete with Siri speech-recognition software at the end of last year, there was a sense that the decades-old technology was now good enough for the average consumer. And where Apple leads, the rest will follow.
The voice-recognition market is dominated by US-based firm Nuance Communications, whose software is thought to power Siri, and most technologies rely on a method of turning speech into text that can then be understood by the computer. But a British company, called Nouvaris, is hoping to take on the big boys with an alternative method of capturing voice commands.
Emerging from the prominent voice recognition software firm Dragon Systems (now absorbed into Nuance), Novauris’s founders John Bridle and Melvyn Hunt have been working away relatively quietly for the last decade developing specific applications, from a media download search function for Verizon Wireless to a Japanese rail travel app.
Source: The Engineer