CTO of NTENT, the leading Search and Conversational AI platform that allows anyone to add search and voice-enabled interfaces to anything.
Indeed, Kidd notes that as voice-enabled interfaces become more common, societal expectations of gender and other aspects of how we perceive them will continue to evolve.
"Voice-enabled interfaces are expanding how consumers interact with IoT devices in their everyday lives – as well as IoT manufacturers' ability to offer smarter and stronger solutions," said Allegion Ventures President Rob Martens, in a statement.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified a standard for voice-enabled telephone interfaces as XML.
Crucially, unlike adults, younger children don't tend to adapt their speech to suit machines, either, something we do consciously or unconsciously in order to improve the utility of voice-enabled user interfaces and so-called smart assistants.
A similar application has been recently investigated in the EC funded DICIT project whose main goal was to realize a voice-enabled natural language interface able to control a TV and a Set-Top-Box at a distance of some meters from an array of microphones.
Data were drawn from two studies that captured visual behaviors of drivers during a series of radio tuning tasks using a traditional manual interface and a multi-modal voice enabled interface during highway driving.
Joe Clubby, an analyst with the Aberdeeen Group, believes the company may use this platform as an opportunity to replace more keyboard functions with voice-enabled commands, as well as to provide a more visually oriented interface that can take advantage of natural language commands.
With the rise of new interfaces and interactions such as 1 1 messaging, voice-enabled services and natural language processing, we have a chance to reach a deeper understanding of consumers.
Fast-forward a few years and we'll see a new workplace with workstations akin to air traffic control centers powered by multiple touch-, swipe- and voice-enabled devices, allowing workers to visualize and manipulate information tactically, driving the adoption of new user-interfaces and fundamental changes in software and hardware.
