Nuance, a developer of voice recognition technology, is in talks with a number of chip manufacturers about how to develop mobile chipsets that continuous speech recognition may make, even if they are stand-by.
With the new mobile chipsets must, according to Sejnoha be possible to use a voice command to a mobile phone from its sleep mode, after which the recognized command or the task to be performed. In current speech recognition software such as Siri for iOS and S Voice of Samsung, the user must use the speech recognition to first activate it. Probably is chosen to limit energy consumption.
They point Sejnoha on the risk of apps that take advantage of an ‘always listening’ smartphone. Although the privacy according to the Nuance’s executive chairman, in principle, to ensure, users will initially have some be reluctant to the ‘always on’-luistermogelijkheid to activate due to concerns about the storage of data and the susceptibility to hacking attempts.