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Giving the Little Guy a Voice

Posted December 04, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Many independent developers and small electronics companies don't have the resources to add custom voice controls to their products. A startup called Wit.ai aims to rectify that by providing a simple-to-use, always-learning natural-language service. To establish a voice command, the developer simply uploads the desired plain-English commands into Wit.ai's system. When a user utters the command, the system's server analyzes the audio and sends structured data back to the gadget to trigger the desired function. Access to the service is complimentary if the developer agrees to share user data with the Wit.ai community to improve the accuracy of the system.

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12/05/2014 10:51 AM

"Access to the service is complimentary if the developer agrees to share user data with the Wit.ai community to improve the accuracy of the system."

Yeah right. Improved accuracy is a side effect. Remember, if the service is free, YOU are the company's product.

It's amazing that the people behind current voice-recognition systems haven't thought of this before. The data that will be collected...! This company will get to know you by your voiceprint. They don't need your phone's location service, they'll just use the vendor's location data to know where you are and what you are doing or thinking of doing. You don't even need to install it on your device, or be talking to the small business' portal. They'll hear you from someone else's voice-enabled device.

Of course, the NSA is likely already doing this. But they're easier to work with.

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12/08/2014 8:31 AM

I agree, if only everything is announced. This schema is hidden under the veil of openness.

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