Touch by the revolutionary intelligent voice will become the development trend of mobile phone
In the past few years, the intelligent mobile phone function have been unprecedented upgrade. However, an obvious trend is the development of hardware, to enhance the oriented, has been gradually slowing, and encounters the bottleneck. In the previous article, the author has introduced the phenomenon, and that one of the future direction of intelligent mobile phone design competition is, without the frame design is a trend. Of course, in addition to seek differences in terms of design, interactive experience of ascension, in 2015 is expected to become a breakthrough in the development of intelligent mobile phone, in this respect, the most likely trend is speech.
Since the first generation iPhone will human-computer intelligent mobile phone interaction from the keyboard to transfer to the touch, human-computer interaction did not appear revolutionary improvements. We must admit that touch operation is in the past few years the best solution, but it really is the best way of human-computer interaction? The answer is negative, as technology improved, more and more people expect between person and person by voice the most natural communication experience, transfer to between the person and the intelligent mobile phone.
Voice: the natural human communication mode
This is the natural human speech communication, is the most natural way to obtain information is the most convenient. Although the touch screen than the keyboard to, is a kind of revolution of human-computer interaction, but by voice, "hands free" is always the people want to further improve the intelligent mobile phone in the direction of.
From the actual user intelligent mobile phone experience, touch operation is typical of the "tree structure", starting from the root node to the child node, the operating path may be longer, and is not easy to find. While the voice is flat, no level restrictions, can reach the target, and thus more efficient.
Voice manipulation can also be effective to avoid the blind touch existing. For example, a user with a mobile phone while driving will touch operation hidden safety problems; such as washing and cooking such household scene, there are also two hands to attend to the situation of mobile phone. Of course, the trend of large screen intelligent mobile phone also gave the speech has brought opportunities -- now appears the irreversible trend of large screen, convenience, but the big screen will indeed affect the operation of the.
Of course, these advantages are not the author found that, in fact the speech has more advantage than the touch is the consensus of the industry. The voice control into the mobile phone is not a fresh thing, have "in the early days of non smart mobile phone voice" exists, and the intelligent mobile phone development today, apple, Google, Microsoft three giants have been in voice out their attempt. The most familiar is the apple of intelligent voice assistant Siri, along with iPhone 4S to launch this function has become one of the biggest selling point generation products. However, data show that use of the rate is not high, but after Google and Microsoft launched Google now, Cortana is also a similar situation in huna.
Some software developers have launched a similar APP, in an attempt to achieve better use of voice some scene or function under control. Application but these speech helper classes, mostly turned into entertainment "game", did not become really help people control mobile phone tools.
These attempts is not failure, but they do not bring the revolutionary change. The reason is in many aspects, such as, the voice function of current over reliance on the network, the speed of response is not ideal; the voice function can realize the function of localization services limited, resource access and lack of.
Belongs to the speech time is coming
In this industry background, the reason the speech control think 2015 the development trend of intelligent mobile phone possible, is because of terminal manufacturers began to voice as the solution to the intelligent mobile phone control.
In the author's opinion, the voice function should develop, must be led by the terminal manufacturer, it is not an independent APP, and should be the combination of hardware and software system, rooted in the bottom hardware platform. The speech function of the traditional Internet Co, leading software company, it is very difficult to solve the hardware challenges, resulting in different types of mobile phone in the speech recognition rate, reaction speed, power consumption and there are many problems in the huge difference.
More importantly, even if we will revolutionize the speech as a new round of human-computer interaction, must also be aware that phonological development is not to give up the other control modes (as if the touch screen mobile phone to become mainstream, but most still need some solid key). In fact, only the voice and touch, such as somatosensory and other control methods combined, users can get a better experience. All these need terminal manufacturers integrate at the bottom and optimization.
Intelligent voice alliance by ZTE launched, is this aspect demand breakthrough paradigm. The coalition includes speech processing chip quotient (Audience), speech recognition software (Nuance), search service providers (Baidu), a content provider (Gao De) and automation China Institute and other research institutions. ZTE hope that through the integration of industry leading technology and resources, promote the development of terminal voice technology, promotion and popularization of large scale application of wisdom of speech.
An important reason for the development of network is also the voice function is expected to be a breakthrough. Some of the products after experiment has been proved, to rely solely on the cloud or the local speech function, they have obvious limitations, only the voice function of local recognition and cloud computing combined, can play the local convenience and cloud big data advantage, make the speech using a more efficient and humane. The development of the 2015 4G network is increasingly perfect, will be early speech function development basic condition.
Seek a breakthrough intelligent voice
Of course, must admit, voice control at present is still faced with many problems to be solved. From the technical point of basic, voice noise reduction (i.e., recognition rate under different noise environment) still needs to be improved substantially, to realize the noisy environment, effective natural speech recognition; recognition of different accent is a challenge, especially in this dialect type Chinese numerous market, put forward higher requirements on the precision of.
In addition, the voice function at present mainly stays in the auxiliary control aspect, the development direction of predictable is achieved from the wake up to the whole speech control all application experience, but the intelligent voice this distance from the ideal of "" there is a big difference. The user is really looking to form a "dialogue" between the real complete and intelligent terminal, intelligent processing of humanity, and not just a simple operation. This point, the development also need more computing power and artificial intelligence to support.
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