Nuance already has some solutions for speech recognition — it’s got a voice control app for both iOS and Android called Dragon Go! Now it’s taking that a step further with Dragon ID, an even smarter tool that actually can decipher the sound of your voice.
You can talk to Dragon in a similar way you would with Siri on the iPhone, though Dragon is arguably more intelligent. The difference with Nuance’s tool is that it actually understands you are you by identifying your specific voice. If you were to call your mother and your father picked up, you would be able to tell it was your dad without asking. Dragon has the same kind of know-how.
On top of that, it does a lot of the things you’d expect, like help you schedule meetings, make phone calls and send emails. It works in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. All you have to do is say “Hello Dragon” in the language you want to use, and it understands you automatically and unlocks the phone.
The only thing is we can’t actually test these cool features yet. Nuance isn’t selling it through the iTunes App Store or Google Play, rather it’s marketing it to OEMs who would presumably have it preloaded into future devices. So while Nuance is making the official announcement today, we don’t actually know when Dragon ID will be implemented.
“If you were to call your mother and your father picked up, you would be able to tell it was your dad without asking.” Hmm... I think the authors mother has been a smoker for 30 years or the father needs to change to boxers.
No. that's exactly his point, that we can tell the difference, and now the software can too
Why is an Australian Tech news site writing about and app that is only available in America?
Wouldn't it be more pertinent to cover Australian Tech news?
Wow, so you only want them to cover Australian Tech?
Maybe read the newspaper tech section if that's all you wanted.
They should put this app on the market, people will find a way to download it anyway.