Starks Industries Intel recently announced that they have teamed up with an unnamed company to develop “Jarvis”. The collaboration resulted in the production of a prototype wireless headset connected to a smartphone. Just like Jarvis of the Iron Man franchise, the headset allows the user to communicate with a virtual personal assistant through voice.
The voice recognition software developed by the unnamed partner was embedded into a processor built by Intel. Said processor is powerful, yet small enough that it can potentially be used on future smartphones. What this development has over what we have now is that the processing does not happen in the cloud. This means faster “thinking” for the app.
Today’s voice recognition programs rely on the cloud to process the input. This means that when you issue a spoken command, a recording of that would be sent to a remote server to be processed. On a slow connection, this dependence on the cloud makes today’s voice recognition slow.
Intel is planning to sell the technology to mobile phone manufacturers. So be on the lookout for what is touted as the future of virtual personal assistants.