AT&T Watson Speech Recognition (API’s) June Launch

Posted by Hartford of mobilebuddii on April 20, 2012 6:35 pm in Application, Communication | 0 comments

I was a bit perplexed  when I first heard of AT&T Watson, the first thought that came to mind was IBM’s Watson, Jeopardy’s smartest non human contestant to date. Well AT&T’s Watson has been years in the making. This voice recognition service will allow you to communicate with your smartphone, tablets, television and other digital devices. The service has been already in use on a few application such at there AT&T Translator app, the mobile voice directory, search with YPMoblie®, voice mail to text and many others. So far they have amassed 600 patents in the area.  The great news today is that they will make available in June some of the Speech APIs.  They realized the best way to accelerate innovation is to open the platform to outside developers. The Speech APIs will be focused in seven areas : web search, local business search, question and answer, voice mail to text, SMS, U-verse® electronic programing guide, and a dictation API for general speech recognition. In addition to the APIs they are giving developers a software development kit (SDK), which developers can use to create software to capture a user’s spoken words and send them into the network for transcription. This is there way of making speech integration easier into developers apps. They also are developing Watson Speech APIs for  gaming and social media. It should be really interesting to see what developers create with the new APIs and SDk . We would like to hear your suggestions and see what king of cool apps you guys can conjure up. Check the AT&T video out at the break.

 

AT&T Watson Voice Recognition API

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