Is voice becoming the new text (again)?

Is voice becoming the new text (again)? by John D. Sutter, click "text" for link, talks about voice recognition becoming the new "it" of technology. Because of all the recent technologies with smartphones having voice recognition, why shouldn't someone be able to have the choice to tell there phone to send a text message? Instead of having to type out your text message, or if you have bigger fingers than others, talking to your device and telling it a command would really benefit some people.

By having this luxury of being able to give your cell phone commands, it could really benefit everyone for the better. For example, it would help people while they are driving. Since texting and being on phones while driving is now such a huge deal, even bigger than people driving drunk, being able to talk to you phone and tell it what to do would help us keep our eyes on the road. Another positive the article states is that instead of taking the time to scan through all your voicemail and wasting time, talking to your phone instead of hitting buttons would help us out as well.

"It's now possible to pick up your phone and press a single button and say, 'I want the Yelp.com review of the Capital Grille in Burlington, Massachusetts. Period,' " said Vlad Sejnoha, chief speech scientist at Nuance Communications, a major producer of voice-to-text software.

I thought the above quote was really interesting. It describes what our world that we once knew it, is coming to. Pretty fascinating. They now have different applications that can be downloaded to your phone, such as ShoutOut, Dragon and Vlingo, which will translate speech into text messages and email.

The only problem with creating an application like this is background noise. Background noise interferes with the computers voice recognition software and doesn't allow the device to translate the data correctly. Another problem is that not everyone speaks alike.

This can relate to our book because most of the book talks about the current trends of technologies as well as the

future of technologies. I know when i'm on my cell phone I can use my voice to call someone in my contact list, which

can be a plus when i'm driving.

example video of ShoutOut by Apple.