The next real advancement took another 12 years to develop. Its purpose was meant to be helping toll operators to take more phone calls over the wire, but its high cost and inability to recognize a wide array of voices made it impractical. The first official example of our modern speech recognition technology was “ Audrey”, a system designed by Bell Laboratories in the 1950s.Īudrey, which occupied an entire room, was able to recognize only 9 digits (numbers 1-9) spoken by its developer, but it did so with an impressive 90% accuracy. The ability to talk to your devices have expanded to encompass most of the technology that we use in our daily lives, and its success is built largely on data collection.Īs we stand at the precipice of a world soon to be dominated by talking devices – and potentially, technologies with a consciousness – let’s take a look back at how it all started. It’s a slightly ironic development, seeing as texting and typing had become the preferred method of communication over voice calls just a few short years ago. Speech technology is being used to replace other, more ‘tired’ methods of input like typing, texting, and clicking. It uses natural language as input to trigger an action, enabling our devices to respond to our spoken commands. Speech recognition software enables phones, computers, tablets, and other machines to receive, recognize, and understand human utterances. Data collection will do the heavy lifting when it comes to the future of speech recognition software.
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