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Voice Activated IOT

 

 

While the average person speaks about 15,000 words a day, they are increasingly speaking those words into the machine. The adoption of a smart speaker has been rapid, with voice assistants like Alexa setting the speed. Today 53 million people in the U.S. already own at least one owner. The number of voice assistants in US homes has doubled since 2018 (up to 25 million) and will increase to 275 million by 2023. That equates to 1,000% growth in just five years, according to Juniper Research.

Smart speakers are not the only voice command tools out there. Smart speaker apps work on smartphones and tablets as well.

One vendor, for example, offers a voice control device that can be customized to a company or word processor and operates offline. One offers a smart TV equipped with a visual assistant. Thirdly it provides voice communication in the production and construction environments, allowing employees to easily access relevant information where needed.

The Internet of Things (IoT) voice control also presses cars to take the lead in IoT adoption. Cars are now integrated with mobile applications to enable voice commands while driving. Gartner is setting a 20% acquisition by the end of this year.

 

Voice Technology at Home, Work

While voice technology has accelerated the introduction of IoT in the home environment, voice communication has become less accessible in the workplace. According to Globant's 2018 Voice-Activated Technology report, there is a significant gap between the personal use of voice command devices and business use. Although 72% of senior employees report using voice technology in their daily lives, only 31% use it in the workplace. And 73% of the companies surveyed view voice technology as an important part of the business but have never taken steps to use it in their processes.

According to Pindrop's 2018 report, 85% of companies surveyed plan to use voice technology for customer use. Of the respondents, 88% said they believed voice technology could create a competitive advantage, while 57% agreed it would make the business a success.

In addition, the first deployment of voice-enabled technology in the business often focuses on cloud-based customer support, accessible by smartphones and laptops, rather than dedicated IoT computing platforms. Some industries such as transportation and manufacturing require advanced computers to provide the required bandwidth of voice technology. As a result, the adoption of voice-activated technology is likely to be slow, as the deployment of technology in those areas requires additional investment in peripheral servers to increase processing bandwidth at acceptable levels using the Smart Speaker.

 

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Businesses can reduce the cost of voice technology by supporting piggybacking on what is available instead of building voice-based applications from scratch or paying for an expensive marketing system, simply paying Amazon to add new capabilities to Alexa.

When Amazon first released Alexa in 2016, it had a catalog of 130 skills; since September 2019, the catalog has grown to more than 100,000 skills. Amazon will create custom-paid capabilities and offers the Alexa Skills Kit, a collection of editing interface apps, tools, and sample code that third-party developers can use to create their own. These new capabilities can be made available to any person or company using Alexa with voice command functionality.

This strategy allows for less expensive and faster adoption of voice-enabled IoT in the business and surpasses the need for end-to-end resources. This may limit its use, but it acquires technology at the door and integrates it with specific business processes.

A good example of how a skills kit with Alexa can create a new voice technology for KidsMD, a Boston Children's Hospital app. Parents can ask questions about a child's illness or injury so they can get real-time information about treatments, procedures, or medications.

The hospital also developed an Alexa app used by a cardiologist in the operating room to open an endoscopic camera. In the ICU, nurses use an app that provides the necessary information to draw the right amount of blood, saving 15–30 minutes per patient; and there is a version of the KidsMD app that provides process information andproblem-solvingg for hospital staff.

Orbita, which produces a wide range of visual healthcare providers, incorporates these capabilities and makes its platform available in a variety of ways - smartphones, tablets, and smart speakers - to empower consumers to access medical services, order medications, make appointments, and understand results. of the lab and set them up for themselves. - reminders of care. Its OrbitaASSIST IoT is a bedside facilitator that facilitates communication with the patient-provider, reducing waiting times, improving clinical team management and improving patient experience.

 

New Types of Voice-Activated Apps

All of these approaches to integrating voice-enabled technologies into consumer and professional processes accelerate IoT adoption in general, but voice technology also furthers the development of new processes.

Another exciting feature of voice technology in visually impaired devices, which allows them to communicate with the world in ways they would never have been able to. Some screen-wearable (wearable have done much to improve public awareness about IoT), often requires the mobile app to display its data to the user; with voice technology, it can respond directly.

Maybe turning a game into a lot of language translation power. Voice-enabled technology in IoT, with AI providing translation, will remove many barriers to business and improve the quality of personal life. In the workplace, real-time translation and IoT devices that can cover you will make multilingual teleconferencing more efficient. At home, children from families who do not speak their native language can communicate with their new family members via a smartphone using a translation app (such as Apple's Translate) and earbuds.