Next Generation Speech Recognition AI "Viv" for Developers of "Siri" Can Address Multiple Questions

Speech recognition assistant on iPhone "SiriWas acquired by Apple originally developed as a third party application and incorporated into iOS as its own function. An artificial intelligence startup led by Mr. Dag Kittlaus who is the creator of this Siri · Viv Labs can answer complex questions also existing voice recognition assistant transcending existing voice recognition AI "Viv"Demonstration at the live event held in New York for 3 days from May 9 to 11, 2016 ·TechCrunch DisruptWe showed off for the first time in.

TechCrunch Disrupt: Siri's co-founder demonstrates next generation AI and Viv applications that talk with speech | TechCrunch Japan
http://jp.techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/20160509siri-creator-shows-off-first-public-demo-of-viv-the-intelligent-interface-for-everything/

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/9/11639992/viv-digital-assistant-ai-artificial-intelligence-siri

Siri of the voice recognition assistant installed in iOS is a function that can send a message, set a schedule, make a phone call, just by talking to you. However, since Siri is limited in the number of cooperable applications, if you ask questions such as "I'd like to reserve an airplane ticket" or "Buy an item sold at the Apple Store", " I found "or" I do not understand the meaning of "question contents" Do you want to search on the web? "Is displayed, eventually it will be difficult to search the web for desired information. Furthermore, since Siri forgets the question contents when answering one question, there is also the drawback that you can not stack questions as you can talk.


On the other hand, Viv of speech recognition AI developed by Mr. Kittlaus can cooperate with multiple third party applications, for example, saying "Pay dollar 20 dollars yesterday for ○ ○" is one more time Tap the screen and the transfer toolVenmoIt seems that it makes me a state that I can pay the drink to my friend. Besides, as Viv is "possible to accumulate questions" like a conversation, he said that if he asks questions continuously, he will take appropriate reaction to follow up question contents.

The state of the actual demonstration of Viv and the whole of Viv which Kittlaus revealed by TechCrunch Disrupt can be known in the following movie.

Viv Recap - YouTube


Dag Kittlaus who appeared in the event of TechCrunch Disrupt. Mr. Kittlaus is standing on the stage to demonstrate the demonstration of the speech recognition assistant "Viv" secretly developing.


Kittlaus comments that Viv will be the next generation paradigm for artificial intelligence related technology.


Viv realized "artificial intelligence" "machine learning" "integration with third party services" at the same time, which means that it is more convenient than the existing speech recognition assistant.


Viv can easily respond to multiple questions. For example, if you talk to "Adam gave back $ 20 last night's drinking period ..."


By tapping "Send $ 20" you will be able to pay $ 20 to Adam from third party apps.



Besides, if you ask "If it gets hotter than 70 degrees F (21 degrees C) in the vicinity of the Golden Gate Bridge after 5 pm on the day after tomorrow", we will not only display the weather forecast, "No, Wednesday It will not exceed 70 degrees Fahrenheit after 5 o'clock. "


In addition, Kittlaus says "For intelligence, the intelligence interface like Viv becomes all" "For the developer, a smarter speech recognition assistant like Viv will be the next big market and channel for content provisioning" is.


Furthermore, boldly, Viv's icon is said to be recognized as soon as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi icons.


In addition, Viv can respond flexibly to questions in natural language because it generates programs dynamically in order to answer it if you understand the question rather than returning a response based on a fixed program. Kittlaus says, "Without the need for the programmer to write the processing code one line at a time, Viv can write its own processing program to answer what was asked, the biggest benefit of Viv is that the application programmer is Viv We only need to know the reaction necessary for it. "

The full version of the movie containing the demonstration of Viv by Dag Kittlaus can be seen from the following.

Beyond Siri: The World Premiere of Viv with Dag Kittlaus - YouTube