What Tellme can bring to Microsoft applications
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Right after the news about Microsoft acquiring Tellme, its founder and CEO Mike McCue and Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes gives some hints about how Microsoft could integrate the voice recognition technology into its products.
Raikes predicts about 100 million people will have the capability to do quick voice-driven dialing ability, or “click-to-call,” from within their everyday applications. “In that case, that would be a ‘click,’ but that also could be a voice command to initiate that call,” reports BetaNews(via textually). The time frame would be within three years.
A scenario we like to anticipate is the 100% touchless cellphones. Phone calls will be triggered by voice. “Call X”, “Call Y” for simple interaction, but also “Call X and Y” to start conference calls as suggested Mike McCue. And of course, you would be able to use your voice to navigate between windows and applications on the Zune for example.
To even rave about the potential application, McCue adds the Tellme technology will get enhanced by learning from different voices. “The more it learns and the more it adapts, and it gets smarter and smarter…With tens of thousands of processes in the network, being able to process different speech utterances, last year alone, we did almost ten billion speech utterances.”
Time will tell. But for now, Microsoft has grabbed a really nice tech jewel. We just wonder if Apple, so fond of touchless screens for its iPhone, has tried to acquire Tellme.
Mar 16, 2007 | By Nuno
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