Is voice technology... still trying to establish itself?

Is voice technology ... still trying to establish itself?

There is both a philosophical as well as promotional aspect when you consider the voice technologies present today, but a more disheartening fact is a absence of a unified framework.

Unfortunately we are still bound to product driving technology rather than technology driving the product.

Let's not mistake this for a fact that every quality product has got some checks in place to allow for or disable the use of the product in a non efficient fashion, we are not talking about that.

I still firmly believe that each quality product should has their own framework to safeguard the use or extensibility of that brand but where is the common standard?

Well, to be precise - there has always been a common standard - be it the start of the computer age via the DOS, Windows or Unix/Mac OS or via the start of the mobile age via the Android, iOS so above frameworks have made sure that desktop web or mobile app points of access have certain well defined frameworks in place.

Now let's look at voice - as of today, each brand be it apple iOS or google or amazon gives it's own framework when voice in itself has certain commonly used concepts like for e.g. - intent, etc.

So a programmer has to learn or work around each framework and the limitations around it.

This really detriminates  the effectiveness and application of the technology to areas which really work to make a difference.

I see voice typically being used as prime driving source when it comes to environments with limited movability like for example space but unfortunately our systems developed using voice are handling very basic tasks.

It still a long way to go... but the absolute minimum is a common framework...

Looking into the future with context aware technologies

Looking into the future with context aware technologies...


Technologies are changing the way we live our lives daily.. ever wondered how context aware technology can help.

Let's take an example - while cars are still preferable means of commute, we use them and travel to crowded places, park the car - go to do our chores and say for example when we return - find that somebody dented our car.  Now while we are away - there is no way to know who did this..

..but wait a second ... that's where IoT comes into picture, your car's co-ordinates are sent back to satellites the moment, the car is stationary, say for example someone was backing up from a car parallel to your's and in that process hit it, now how will you know who it was..

.. let the tech do that for you... how? .. well the moment car is parked, it's co-ordinates are sent along with the co-ordinates of the car next to you.

once a collision happens, the car's next to your's will automatically inform of the incident, if not, then at minimum you have a record of the probable cars which might have hit, so the process of tracking becomes probable and easy.

This is just one scenario and there are many more like these .. but as said we are far far away from building something which works seamlessly and for that - we have to get out of the basic glittery not useful stuff like switching on & off instruments remotely (that's not technology - at least for today's age) but then something like does the light switch on detecting your presence - that's is more modern time stuff ... getting AI to examine and implement the behaviour with confidence for you.