CV_Jan_22

Vo5G AND THE NEXT STAGE OF VOICE TECHNOLOGY By Paroma Bhattacharya The HARPY Speech Recognition System, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-1970s, was the first speech recognition proof of concept capable of processing and interpreting 1,000 words. After decades of behindthe-scenes voice technology improvement, the greatest names in tech brought voice recognition mainstream and deployed the new wave of natural language recognition capabilities in smartphones about 40 years later. Siri, Alexa, Bixby, DuerOS and Google Assistant are all popular now. In total, 128 million people in the United States used mobile voice assistants in 2020. The technology that was once the subject of the HARPY experiment is now commonplace. Beyond smartphones and earphones, voice integration has become the norm. It was startling and lovely at first to ask your phone to give you the weather; however, being unable to talk to your car or TV the way you can to a phone soon became a hassle. Consumers now anticipate speech in refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, smartwatches, air conditioners and a variety of other devices. Voice control will become the primary form of contact between consumers and their devices as this technology spreads and develops, which means that consumer electronics manufacturers must consider voice control as a basic feature of pretty much any “smart product.” The benefits that smartphones have brought to our lives will continue to generate broad expansion expectations from all of us, but we must address the user interface diversity. With 5G voice in place, service providers should start thinking about how to bring their voice service into the future. 5G voice will provide additional options for service providers to enhance their voice services. People will become more accustomed to utilizing their voice in a variety of situations (whether that is communicating with humans or machines). MOBILE & WIRELESS 10 CHANNELV ISION | JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2022

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