Voice technology in cars

More like the past. That shit's been working and unchanged for years

gimmick until it works flawlessly

The actual reason I made this thread is that I could get my absolute dream job (in a company developing for BMW) if I convince them that my specialization, speech-based technology, is essential in the digitalization of cars.

My opinion is the following: as things stand, voice recognition in cars is little but a gimmick. There is a proness to errors, especially with lagging connection and background noise, that makes speech recognition completely unviable for handling core functions of the car. No one would actually use it.

So what you need is a reduced instruction set paradigm: as system that recognized very few commands, but does so without internet connection and without failure.

For this, one would need to conduct research on how the speech a driver would use intuitively would sound like and how you can narrow this speech to very few, very reliable commands. For that, the company could use someone like me, a specialist in natural language recognition.

>>58039852
What parts of a car would you control with voice? In general, you have to simplify the interaction with the car to provide a benefit for the user. If a voice command replaces one button press, e.g. change the radio channel, it offers little benefit for the user.

If a voice command can reliably initiate navigation to an arbitrary place, it simplifies the driving experience, since the address doesnt have to be typed in on the cars touch screen.

The hard part is not only developing reliable speech recognition, but also finding a good use case for it. This also applies to other areas nowadays, especially IoT. Technologically possible, but in the current state basically useless.

>>58039852
This posts just tells me you're not even close to a specialist.

>>58040379

Makes sense. I'm a student looking for an internship, I completed only two and a half semesters. We didn't get to the practical parts yet.

>>58040352

Thanks, that's something to think about. If yoij can always just press a button, voice commands are difficult to justify.

I believe it'll stay a gimmick, albeit driver-less vehicles might make use of voice commands

As gimmicky as it gets, at least for now.

Recognition rates need to be near 100% for it to produce palpable results.

It's a gimmick on my 2003 car, it just about gets the command 'Radio' but otherwise it has no idea.