About VoiceBox:
THE PROBLEM…
The Internet has made us all voracious consumers of information. Advances in mobile technology have promised that we will soon be able to access ‘all that stuff’ while we’re away from our PC – in the car, or out in about.
But the promise has run into a dead end: the Problem of the Interface. It’s just not easy to find what you’re looking for on a small screen and tiny keyboard – in fact it’s somewhere between frustrating and unsafe while mobile.
People have started to look to voice recognition technology to help with the Problem of the Interface. It’s been around for years, of course, and the truth is it’s struggled to create a good user experience. We’ve all been frustrated getting lost in those annoying voice control menus on the phone…
The limitations of the underlying science are even more challenged when we’re mobile. Background noise is obviously a problem, and the distraction involved in slugging through voice menus is unpractical and unsafe in the car.
ENTER VOICEBOX…VoiceBox started by challenging the underlying assumptions of traditional voice recognition technology. Human communication is never perfect – we stammer and mumble, there’s background noise, etc. Yet we somehow understand each other. Why, then, does the current technology require us to speak fixed commands perfectly?
VoiceBox’s patented Conversational Voice Search models the realities of imperfect human communication, and the results offer a quantum-leap improvement from traditional voice recognition technology!
WHO WE ARE and WHY WE’RE DIFFERENTVoiceBox Technologies develops next-generation voice applications using its patented, innovative Conversational Voice Search technology. VoiceBox supplements traditional voice recognition technology with algorithms that go beyond sound-matching to understand the intent of a user query and provide people with more direct access to information.
As the International Academy of Science recently put it, “The VoiceBox Conversational Search Platform makes applications and devices understand, not just listen.”
This innovation creates a more natural and much less frustrating voice application experience: VoiceBox doesn’t ask people to learn a fixed, unforgiving command set; it better tolerates background noise and the normal ums-and-ahs of everyday communications; it gets us more directly to what users want without asking them to traipse through tedious voice command menu trees.
Our Conversational Voice Search applications let people speak the language they already know – less like robots and more like humans. And our applications can run on a PC, in-car navigation/telematics systems, or on any mobile device. We can run embedded on the device, accessed on a server, or both.
As such, VoiceBox can provide people with a single interface for anytime, anywhere access to information and services – at home or while mobile.
The year we announced our technology, we received many prestigious awards acknowledging ‘the VoiceBox advantage.’ And our innovation has been awarded US Patents. Best of all, independent research showed overwhelming consumer acceptance of and excitement for the VoiceBox solution (Hebert Research).
Partners the likes of Toyota and Pioneer have seen the VoiceBox difference, and have just starting shipping applications using our technology. We look forward to working with them and others to bring more of our capabilities to market!
