Here's how your gadgets decipher what you are saying
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Locating the nearest café, calling your mom or writing out a text message that you’re dictating while driving – you know how easy it is. Computers can even answer our questions or act as our virtual assistants; even though it’s frustrating when they get things wrong sometimes. ALSO READ: YOU CAN COMMUTE BETWEEN MUMBAI AND PUNE IN JUST 10 MINUTESIt’s called voice recognition and it’s an example of computer learning. And despite the occasional awkward response or failure to understand some accents, this type of technology has made a lot of progress in the last couple of years; just look at recent versions of Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s
So, how does our phone, tablet or car decipher the things we say and respond accordingly? And every time you show this to your septuagenarian father, he is super-awed at the ‘magic’. Even many of us don’t know how this actually works.
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