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Although #chatbots are popping up everywhere at the moment with all kinds of varying quality, I personally love this example. Smarty is a chatbot that appears as avatar. I like it either because of its simplicity, but especially because of its potential. It recognizes objects, it recognizes speech and gestures just on your iPhone.

Hi house, how are you doing? We are seeing a growing number of initiatives that aim to promote home automation using natural language voice technology rather than buttons or keyboards as the user interface.

I just read Nick Bilton’s blog post in Bits “Disruptions: TV Makers Ignore Apps at Their Own Peril”.  I know it’s now a couple of months since it was published but hey, you can’t catch every blog post every time and what he’s saying still remains spot-on.

Who is Lexee?

Likes: Stimulating mobile conversations. I am always willing to try something new. I know what I like, and I’m not afraid to tell you.

Favorite Quotation: “The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt.

Hometown: I was born in Angel Labs, Tysons Corner, VA.

Family: My parents are Lexicon and Mobile - they are both true inspirations in my life.

Relationship: I’m currently in beta, and will be available in October. If you complete the form to the right, I’ll let you know when I’m officially available.

Interests: I am happiest empowering other mobile apps, and I love to be asked questions too. Some of my interests include Media, Travel, Hospitality, Finance, Retail, and CRM.

One of my favorite CRMs is Salesforce.com. Check out Lexee for Salesforce to demo my capabilities!

  Link Lexee to your individual Salesforce.com account.
  Then, ask her questions regarding your Salesforce.com data (e.g., “Who are my top 5 sales reps? Or what deals do I have in best case?”).
  She’ll answer verbal questions by pulling information and data directly from your account.

Lexee is a product of Angel

Don’t you wish your car was as intuitive to use as a smartphone?During the past decade, automotive manufacturers have added more and more electronics to take the hard work out of driving a car. But the proliferation of buttons, screens and lights, while reducing the physical effort required to drive a car, has also increased the risk of distractions.

It’s just over two week since we finished at Mobile World Congress and I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the conversations I had with people that dropped by for a chat at our two exhibition stands – one located in the main section of Hall 2, the other in App Planet. There was certainly a healthy level of interest in how virtual assistants can be used on mobile devices – maybe this shouldn’t be such a surprise following Apple’s launch of Siri but it was really encouraging that so many people are recognizing the opportunity of using NLI as the basis of a new and effective speech enabled interface for mobile devices.

Imagine a world where you can talk to almost any electronic device in your household; you give commands to your fridge, your microwave, your car, your mobile and your TV without pressing a single button. Your voice is the sole control of the actions that you want executed by the device in question. It is a hands-free society, ruled by voice and gesture recognition. But aren’t we there already? There’s voice control technology out there that allows making simple requests like ‘call Fred.’ However, there’s one fundamental question about this technology; how intelligent are these human-machine conversations?

A novel technique of achieving multilingual (including regionals) speech recognition by combining existing single language recognizers has a promise of

• Increased modularity and flexibility- additional languages can be added or removed without requiring major reconfiguration
• Less complex multilingual implementation – faster time to market
• Enable multi-language speech recognition with a smaller memory footprint – less cost
• Faster execution times than alternative technologies – better user experience
• Easier implementation
• Lower overall system costs
• Lower on-going support costs

We are soooo excited to reveal our new companies section showing all leading providers in conversational AI, (3D) animation, speech synthesis and speech recognition and visual biometrics, and an additional Vendor Selector tool to select providers, designed for organizations their buying process!

This companies section will also reveal our advanced business members: Industry leaders who have joined our business program, contributed financially and therefore empowered us to move this industry forward. With their support, we have been able to further develop our role as an Industrial Catalyst, advancing the industry of Intelligent Virtual Characters.

Do you dream about conversational virtual assistants that recognize your voice? First try to talk to your search engine. Your voice will be recorded, transcribed subsequently by the speech server, and then sent back as text. With Google Voice Recognition application users can talk to the computer through a microphone and search for results by speaking, as presented on the video below.