VOICE-DIAL: Say goodbye to your physical dial-pad
Have you ever entered the wrong phone number and then realized its wrong after months? Or have you noticed your phone dialler app looking the same all these years? Do not worry! We have quite found the solution for all of these problems.
Voice-dial is where we will come when anyone hands you out their numbers, or if you want to call someone through a calling app. It is a tool which takes down phone numbers for you by completely avoiding the use of a physical dial pad on the traditional counterpart. Want to take down phone numbers in other languages as well? Voice-dial coming to the rescue!
Innovation has been sewn into our lives. We look at a lot of things indifferently, which are a result of radical improvements made on their predecessors. This indifference allows room for mediocrity to creep in. One such instance, where improvement was overlooked is the dialer apps on our phones.
We have been looking for new ways to do everything, from pushing bulky books into a sleek kindle to converting gargantuan computers into pocket-friendly smartphones. Nevertheless, telephone dialer has not gotten very far. From a ring sliding disc to an array of digit buttons, which got replicated on a smartphone screen. The old phonebooks too were just converted into digital ditto called contacts in our devices.
As the world advances towards a smarter lifestyle, the smartness of the services we use comes from the very interface offered by them. To revamp the UI of a traditional dialer app, we have chosen speech as our partner.
Andrew Ng has long predicted that as speech recognition goes from 95% accurate to 99% accurate, it will become a primary way that we interact with computers. The idea is that this 4% accuracy gap is the difference between annoyingly unreliable and incredibly useful. Thanks to Deep Learning, we’re finally cresting that peak.
We are using speech-recognition techniques to capture the number spoken by our user. The direct call button in the application keeps the user a tap away from making a call! We plan to work on a voice integrated contact list as well which provides a fresh interface to the monotonous dialling app. Right now our model is working well in English and very soon we are looking forward to adding many more languages.
Once the base model for speech-to-text calling is released, our work on the next update will be to provide a full-fledged voice-integrated experience to our users. The long term vision is to allow the user to place the phone near their ears to make calls seamlessly, without searching for a number and dialling it manually.
