Novauris Mobile Voice Search
Melvyn Hunt MD and Founder of mobile voice company Novauris contacted us about a comment made about voice and Nuance on GoMo News. He points us some videos that address this issue indicating that his company is as strong a player in the market as Nuance.
Because we support the smaller player and are yet to be convinced about voice search - I have asked Melvyn to comment at greater length about the issue and he will respond shortly. But am directing you to some videos from the companythat demonstrates clearly what they do. I don’t know Novauris personally but am very aware of them from our relationship with mobile search company Medio.
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One Response to “Novauris Mobile Voice Search”
The GoMo News article “Hidden gem inside One Shot Address Entry” (Tony Dennis, July
describes an ability to recognize a complete spoken address. It says, “The snag is that this software presently requires a PC to function efficiently and a PC is basically about 20 times faster than one of today’s smartphones.” We would like to point out that complete spoken addresses can already be recognized with a delay of only a second or so on a mobile phone. Novauris has demonstrated this on various hand-held devices including smartphones. Demonstrations on a Samsung i780 smartphone are shown at:
http://www.novauris.com/videos.htm#dscsphone and
http://www.novauris.com/videos.htm#dscsphone2
and on an HP iPAQ PDA at
http://www.novauris.com/videos.htm#dscs .
In the smartphone demos, the address first appears and later a map is shown. There is very little delay in displaying the address, but there is more delay in displaying the map because in this case it is fetched from a Google website over a relatively slow connection. One of the advantages of being able to carry out the recognition locally on the handset is that it does not incur the inevitable delays of remote access to a server and of course is not subject to limitations of mobile phone coverage. The map information can of course be stored locally. The PDA demo shows much less delay because it accesses Google Maps over a wifi link.
The July 8 article goes on to point out the potential of voice search for access to music tracks. Indeed, Novauris does exactly this. We have demonstrated voice selection from 10,000 tracks on a handheld (it could be many times more). In a network-based implementation, Novauris provides the voice search software for VZW’s Get It Now Search service, providing single-shot voice access to around one million items, mostly music-related. This service has been running since August 2006 and handles tens of thousands of calls per day from millions of VZW subscribers. A video can be seen at: http://www.novauris.com/videos.htm#gins
Comment made on August 26th, 2008 at 12:16 pmand of course readers who are VZW subscribers can download the client software and try it for themselves.
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