Conversay Voice Assist

VoiceAssist 1.0, the Conversay application suite for wireless phones, enables speech-enabled name dialing, digit dialing and application launch. VoiceAssist is a strategic baseline application proving itself in millions of deployments of Conversay speech technologies.

VoiceAssist was developed through Conversay research with leading wireless handset manufacturers. The first version appeared in Samsung’s SGH-i700 UK release version in October 2004. The SGH-E620 model was released in June 2005 in England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy with great fanfare. It was announced as the first phone to directly combine Bluetooth with speaker independent speech recognition: all you have to do to call someone is touch the Bluetooth headset button and say their name; you need not take your phone out of your pocket or purse. Subsequent to the above models, VoiceAssist has been implemented in many newer Samsung handsets, including the i300, i310 and i320, as well the i600.

VoiceAssist 1.0 is speaker-independent, meaning no voice training is necessary, and includes an “n-best list” feature (which gives users a selection of most likely matches to unfamiliar words or terms).

VoiceAssist 2.0, now in alpha release, will include one-step dialing (“Call Scott Clark at Mobile”), Voice Alarm, Voice Reminder and Voice Settings, among other new features making handsets easier to use and extending their voice-operability.