Don’t type, speak it up
If you are an Indian exhausted of thumping the fingers on the keypad incessantly, this news may bring a sigh of relief for you. A few days back, Google proclaimed an extension of its speech recognition capabilities. Now, it is said to support more than 30 new languages, which include 8 Indian languages, such as Bengali and Kannada. Furthermore, Indus OS also lately announced speech to text proficiency for more than 23 Indian languages.
Not just that, but a Bengaluru based start-up, Liv.ai, is coming up with an Android application next week for speech to text conversion in languages, such as English, Hindi, Punjabi, Bangla, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil.

With ever increasing demand in such applications, the speech and voice recognition niche is said to be worthy of $6.19 billion in the current year and the number is more likely to reach $18.30 billion by 2023.
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While it may be a boon for some, this service has its own consequences. In a country as diversified as India, the local dialects and accents appear out to be a hurdle. Coming to Liv.ai, this application is competent of recognizing accents; however, if someone speaks Awadhi or Maithili, it doesn’t process accurately.
Taking care of this problem, Reverie is probably coming out with another 12 languages by the next year, which will recognize distinct accents easily as well.
