All You Need To Know About Voice Recognition Technology in 2021

In this 21st century, Voice recognition or Speech recognition technology has become very popular. Standing in this modern era, with the gradual growth of various technologies, the demand for this technology has been increasing day by day.

This technology refers to a device that receives spoken instructions and acts accordingly.

Like any other technology, this has also a past history. In 1952 the voice recognition technology started the journey. When this technology was only accepting the single digits.

But, each professional field has started using this technology. Including the educational sectors, the healthcare sectors, even it is used in the telecommunication sector.

This voice recognition technology has now gained huge popularity with the use of Google voice search, Microsoft Cortana, Siri Personal Assistant and Alexa Amazon Echo.

Although, Apple Siri has lost its popularity just like before it gained enormous popularity among people. Mainly voice recognition technology was originally used by personal computers, but now people are much more active on their smart devices. Now people are able to take the advantages of this technology on their smartphones.

Most interestingly this technology is now available in our bedroom, living room and also in our kitchen. Even kids are able to use this technology and people are really enjoying communicating with these devices.

In the year 2011 Apple Siri was launched and this was the first voice assistance, which is made by mainstream technology companies.

How voice Recognition Technology works in 2021

Firstly, Google voice search is one of the most popular voice search technologies. It works when a person speaks. And then google voice search figures out what actually the person means.

This Google voice search works by using different speech identification approaches to a compound natural language processing system.

In this case, Amazon Alexa works in a very interesting way. First when we ask ‘Alexa How many days until the next holiday?’ then the devices record the voice. Then the recorded voice is sent to Amazon’s Alexa Voice services which create a command with the voice to understand the recording voice.

The essential software’s for voice recognition Technology

One of the most popular software is Dragon professional and then Google Now, Dragon anywhere, Google cloud speech API, Google Docs voice typing and Amazon Lex.

How Brands Are started using the voice recognition Technology

Companies like "Starbucks" have started voice activated ordering for targeting their customers.

It’s very easy to use when people are travelling in their car. In that time they are able to get a coffee using Amazon Alexa.

So that people are enjoying their coffee while sitting in their car.

Also we see that "Kayak" is also using voice recognition technology. Kayak use their voices for their offer research and hotel bookings.

And KFC also started using voice recognition technology to reach a wide range of people. They use the Voice – based chatbot to describe their different menu items and offers.

Giant brands like Tesla also use voice recognition technology. Model s and model x were controlled by the voice recognition technology. These voice commands can control the car settings, climate settings, media settings and many more.

Education, Health sector started using Voice Recognition Technology to improve services

We should focus on implementing voice recognition in the education sectors. People are trying to get digital technologies into the classrooms.

And importantly where a student has physical disabilities this voice recognition technology is very essential for them.

Nowadays, the health sector almost uses 47 % voice recognition technology that already exists in the market.

We also see that Google and Amazon created AVIA App that initiated one of the first virtual health support.

Importantly this is not only used for answering patients’ requests in real time but it is also allowed by the medical staff’s performance tracking in one dashboard. This is actually helping the health sectors to unlock the potentiality of digital.

According to reports almost half of the adults use voice recognition technology and almost 27% of the online world population use the voice search recognition technology on their mobile phone.

And statistics show that almost 52% of voice recognition device owners keep them in a living room and 25% of these people keep them in their bedroom, and 22% people retain a smart speaker assistant in their kitchen.

In 2021 almost 5 billion people use voice recognition to search globally, it is also expected that the number will increase to 6.4 in 2022.

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