Hi all, I work with IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Mumbai, India, as an interaction designer. Currently we are doing a research project called "galla - a low cost retail management system". We are designing a hardware and a software for small grocery shop keepers for better customer management, item management and vendor management.
In one of our exploration, we tried context based speech recognition system, which works pretty well. We designed a UI particularly for this application. While making a bill of particular items in a grocery shop, these context based words helps making bills faster. In India, as grocery shops are noisy, this system is facing some problems about accuracy because of background noise. This system is designed in a way where there is no need to train it, one can directly start operating it. Currently the system works only for english words, we are also trying out with regional languages. But for sure, as it is a context based voice recognition system, it works much better that normal speech recognition system. We are still trying to find a good solution for reducing the background noise and making this system more effective. Cheers!!! On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Victoria Stanbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to work for a start-up called AgileTV. We developed a very > robust speech to TV control interface. The company is now called > Promptu. Check them out: www.promptu.com > > - Speech recognition is very advanced today. You can have anyone > speak a number of specific words into a microphone and the computer > adapts to your speech. Promptu's technology of speech > input>server>response is very fast. > > - In many user tests the system was found to be very interesting and > useful to some - mainly elderly and disabled, but we ran a regional > test with a local cable company, typical users found that it was just > as complicated to learn the new speech interface as it was to navigate > the on screen guides. > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29005 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Keyur Sorathia Interaction Designer, Media Lab Asia, IIT Mumbai. mobile : +91 98198 15448 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
