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Pizza Hut orders voice recognition with the lot
News Looking to slice operating costs and deliver streamlined ordering processes, Pizza Hut will soon add voice recognition to its Sydney and Brisbane call centres with a system based on VeCommerce's VeBook order fulfilment product.
[January 23, 2002, 9:43]
Can Soft Biometric Traits Assist User Recognition?
White Papers Hence, the fundamental requirement of any biometric recognition system is a human trait having several desirable properties like universality, distinctiveness, permanence, collectability, acceptability, and resistance to circumvention.
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Generalized Feature Extraction for Structural Pattern Recognition in Time-Series Data
White Papers Pattern recognition encompasses two fundamental tasks: description and classification. Given an object to analyze, a pattern recognition system first generates a description of it (i.e.the pat-tern) and then classifies the object based on that...
[December 27, 2003, 2:38]
Authoring Sensor-Based Interactions by Demonstration With Direct Manipulation and Pattern Recognition
White Papers A combination of direct manipulation and pattern recognition techniques enables designers to control how demonstrated examples are generalized to interaction rules. Sensors are becoming increasingly important in interaction design.
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
Face Value: Examining the Factors That Influence Successful Facial Recognition Technology Implementations
White Papers The myriad claims and counter-claims about the efficacy of facial recognition (FR) systems bewilders many people, even perhaps those in the biometrics technology community. This paper attempts to bring clarity to the topic, reconciling the...
[August 2, 2007, 0:23]
On the Integration of Speech Recognition Into Personal Networks
White Papers These challenges need to be solved before Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is ready for widespread use in the context of personal communication environments. Mobile communication presents a number of challenges to speech technology such as the...
[May 24, 2006, 1:00]
Low-Complexity Automatic Speaker Recognition in the Compressed GSM AMR Domain
White Papers This paper presents an experimental implementation of a low-complexity speaker recognition algorithm working in the compressed speech domain. The compressed bitstream values of the widely used GSM AMR speech coding standard are studied to identify...
[August 6, 2007, 22:40]
Mobile phones get facial recognition
News Mobile phones could soon be equipped with facial recognition technology, if some biometric sensor software launched by Japanese firm OMRON this week is commercially successful. OMRON's OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor software can compare the...
[March 1, 2005, 17:00]
Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Integration RFID and Face Recognition for Technical and Vocational Education and Training on ARM and Windows CE
White Papers This paper presents a technique of mobile platform learning for relating paper maps and electronic information resources using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and face recognition on the Intel XScale PXA270 CPU target ARM system, mobile...
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
The ETSI Extended Distributed Speech Recognition (DSR) Standards: Server-Side Speech Reconstruction
White Papers The extensions enable enhanced tonal language recognition as well as server-side speech reconstruction capability. This paper discusses the server-side speech reconstruction whereas a companion paper discusses the front-end extension and tonal...
[April 11, 2005, 3:00]
Intelligent Document Recognition: Decrease Costs, Increase Customer Satisfaction and Gain a Competitive Edge
White Papers One may already understand the benefits of Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR). One may already know that IDR enables to reduce cost associated with processing paper manually by automating the classification, data extraction, and routing of...
[April 25, 2009, 1:23]
Biometrics: A Look at Facial Recognition
White Papers Biometrics is used for human recognition which consists of identification and verification. The terms differ significantly. With identification, the biometric system asks and attempts to answer the question, "Who is X?
[February 15, 2005, 2:00]
A WLAN Scheduling Algorithm to Reduce the Energy Consumption of a Distributed Speech Recognition Front-End
White Papers This paper presents a wireless LAN scheduling algorithm to minimize the energy consumption of a distributed speech recognition front-end on a mobile device. This paper considers quality-of-service tradeoffs including compression ratio and overall...
[November 23, 2005, 0:00]
Fields Law Office Boosts Their Bottom Line With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Voice Recognition Software
White Papers The firm deployed Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software to digitize case data as it is created. Fields Law Office wanted to improve the efficiency by reducing the manually intensive and expensive process of transferring dictated case...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Leading Insurance Firm Saves $1.2 Million Dollars With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Voice Recognition
White Papers Leading Insurance firm wanted to stay competitive by identifying and implementing an easy-to-use voice recognition solution that integrates with firm's document creation processes, reducing costly transcription services.
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Voice recognition software is ready for real use
News Voice recognition software (VRS), once a clunky, cumbersome product that caused more aggravation than it was worth, has evolved into a sleek tool that can increase your productivity significantly. Maners said IBM has worked on advancing speech...
[August 29, 2002, 15:57]
Criminal Suspects Meet Their Match with Face Recognition Technology
White Papers Belgium is the first country in Europe to deploy face recognition technology nationwide. The innovative biometrics solution, based on a Microsoft Windows NT platform, is improving the quality of police data and facilitating investigative research.
[December 11, 2003, 23:00]
IBM revamps voice-recognition software
News Hoping to lure more people to the brave new world of speech recognition software, IBM will unveil an upgraded version of ViaVoice Millennium Wednesday. So far speech recognition hasn't gained a wide following, despite a push by major speech...
[September 8, 1999, 11:10]
Microsoft devices to get speech recognition
News Details have leaked onto the Web about a new Microsoft application that will add voice recognition to handheld computers that use the company's Pocket PC software. Microsoft began soliciting beta testers in September for Voice Command, a software...
[October 29, 2003, 12:10]
A Platform 2015 Workload Model: Recognition, Mining and Synthesis Moves Computers to the Era of Tera
White Papers Intel is investigating three fundamental classes of processing capabilities in order to make meaningful use of this enormous sea of information: Recognition, Mining and Synthesis (RMS). World data is doubling every three years and is now measured...
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
