Nuance Offers New Vocal Search

January 23, 2014

People have been waiting for years when they could go into their homes or work place and simply say a vocal command, then a computer would respond with the correct information. Nuance Communications is taking the world a step closer to that reality, says 4 Traders in the article: “Nuance To Start A Whole New Conversation With Launch Of New Dragon Assistant For Intel RealSense Technology.” Nuance’s new Dragon Assistant is available for computers that use Intel Real Sense technology and even better is that tablets can now use it.

Dragon Assistants comes with two personalities, British Butler and American female. Users can have an ongoing dialogue with their assistant and can ask it to do a variety of activities using vocal commands. Users will also be available to ask questions and receive answers. Dragon Assistant will have a knowledge pool supplied from over 170 content providers.

The article states:

” ‘Together with Intel, we are changing the way people experience their devices, starting a whole new conversation,’ said Michael Thompson, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. ‘This latest version of Dragon Assistant is transformative. People can have an interactive dialogue that is natural and intuitive, with a voice assistant that listens and understands the context of conversation – just as you would expect from a personal assistant powered by Nuance and Intel.’ “

Expect there to be kinks in the Dragon Assistant. Developers have been trying to create an intelligent and human-like assistant for years, each project brings us one step closer. I presume, however, we still have not brought it up to Star Trek standards yet.

Whitney Grace, January 23, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under News, Search, Technology

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