Summary: By Larry Dignan (Sept 26) Apple is reportedly prepping a voice system dubbed Assistant in the iPhone 5. Can Apple make voice recognition cool?
Voice recognition and commands have gone so mainstream that you can’t call any company without first talking to some robot. Meanwhile, voice commands are found in your car—Ford Sync—phone via Google voice search and other areas.
What has been missing is that emotional appeal and the mainstreaming of voice technology?
Can Apple change that? 9-to-5Mac is reporting that Apple will include an iPhone 5 feature called Assistant that’s based on its Siri acquisition. Assistant goes like this:
- Hold down the home button for a couple of seconds.
- Say or pick a command.
- Voice is integrated with all the apps of the iPhone. You can send a text, make an appointment, ask for directions and do other handy things.
- The integration is supposed to be the big selling point.
With voice recognition expanding and evolving, users are growing ever more confident in its use. Imagine the simplification of life as we drive our cars. The endless number of activities we can handle remotely. Not that the Gen XYZ generations aren't multi-taskers enough already. However, it is this same generation that continually looks to automate everything, to find ways for to do more with less effort. However, there are endless possibilities for the use. Imagine the flexibility of real-time purchase (all w/ the spoken word). More and more commercial sales sites have their mobile sites. Think of the possibilities of bringing up a mobile site for Best Buy and making a purchase based on voice recognition command, or ordering tickets from ticket master (minus the agent). Bu then there's my personal favorite. You are lessening to that hot new song on the radio of your car, or on your phone.....why shouldn't you be able to purchase it through iTunes via voice command only (speaking you login/password/artist/song/confirmation/purchase. The ease of it!!!!!
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