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Two weeks ago, Amazon announced an Alexa Custom Assistant (ACA). I quickly blogged about it and posted on linkedin saying I thought it was a “big deal” and asked if others agreed. Almost half of the respondents agreed, a few disagreed, and a lot said something along the lines of “it depends”. Of course, “it depends” is the accurate answer,…

Apple’s acquisition and introduction of Siri made waves. It represented Jobs, who was a voice recognition naysayer, pronouncing “voice” as a big deal and ready for prime time. It made every company from every industry open their eyes, but Sensory heard a lot of “I know its coming, but I don’t know when”.  Voice assistants had hit mobile phones but…

  Everyone understands that with biometrics it’s all about the combination of convenience and accuracy. Biometrics can be much more convenient than a password because there’s nothing to remember and safety is enhanced because biometrics aren’t easily predictable and can’t be stolen. But not all biometrics are the same in convenience and accuracy. Here’s an internal comparison Sensory did that…

This month Orange decided to stop selling its Djingo smart speaker and it didn’t get much notice. But I think it’s significant. it shows that even a $30 billion telecom giant can’t compete with the likes of Google and Amazon (incidentally they were using SoundHound technology which is about as good a cloud recognizer as an independent general-purpose assistant has…

Speech recognition today works great. Sure, accents create challenges, and signal to noise ratios can make things more difficult, but through the use of deep learned approaches to modeling, we are able to achieve accuracy rates that get well above 90%. When you add a little Natural Language Understanding (NLU) around the voice recognition engine, it is not hard to…