Developing a new speech recognition AI that allows Siri developers to understand complex questions

ByPhoto Giddy

"IPhone 4S is installed from"Siri"Is a speech recognition application that sends e-mails just by talking to you and sets alarm clocks. A new speech recognition system equipped with AI far beyond Siri such as developers involved in the birth of Siri "understanding complex questions" and "almost all applications can be executed"Viv"We are developing.

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Siri is a convenient application that calls a contact's registration destination or registers a schedule according to the user's question, but it is not "universal" because there are restrictions on cooperating applications . For example, when asking "I'd like to reserve tickets for airplanes" or "Buy an item sold at the Apple Store", I will respond "Open a website and lead me".

Chris Brigham, Mr. Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer, who was involved in the development of such Siri, launched a startup called Viv Labs and began to develop AI "Viv" far beyond Siri. Viv is a word meaning "Live" in Latin, and it is possible to collaborate with more than 1 million applications, he can understand airline / taxi reservations and multiple questions. In addition to learning user preferences, we learn from all users through the cloud, so we can deal with a wide variety of topics. However, regarding cooperation with third party applications, etc., it is not yet confirmed.

When Viv is completed, when talking to "I want to buy lasagna and cheap wine that suits it, on my way to my brother 's house", Viv is going to tell the route to my brother' s house and the wine store 's way List and list shops where you can buy lasagna.


At this time, Viv said, "Looking at the materials of Lasagna and seeing what dish" → "Inquire about wines that match Italian style lasagna with cheese, meat and sauce" → "Search for shops where you can buy lasagne and wine" Simultaneously with the process, "complicated processing such as" pick up brother's address from contact "→" search route "→" incorporate lasagne and wine purchase point in the way to the destination "will be done.


Also, if we tell him that "We will purchase the lowest price ticket from San Francisco International Airport to Charles de Gaulle International Airport on July 2, along with a return ticket that will be returned on Monday," Viv said, Access the seat database and propose "Seat 61 G of Lufthansa 455 flight". If the user replies "OK", Viv will use the credit card to purchase the ticket.

The team of Viv says that when AI is completed, rather than selling exclusively to one company, "I want to make it available for use on all devices such as telephones, PCs, TVs and cars."