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This is 2019. The year becomes significant when we start talking
technological advancements and their effects as we move forward. Every
year, we see something new, something that has the potential to change
technology forever. But as American fiction author William Gibson puts it
aptly, “The future is already here; it is just not very evenly distributed.” The
year acts as a milestone, a benchmark for the immense amount of effort
for the entire civilization to reach to this point, and shows where we are
headed in the near future.
Voice User Interface (or VUI) is an interaction model where a human
interacts with a machine and performs a set of tasks at least in part by
using voice. For example, “Hey Siri, tell me today’s headlines” is a simple
VUI command where Siri identifies and “tells” the user the news as output.
In a similar manner, IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems are widely
used in the banking and travel industries. These systems are primarily
dependent on voice biometrics for identifying the users and choosing
the set of tasks that the user wants to complete using voice as a primary
interaction mode. |
