News Commentary | April 12, 2021
Eye‑tracking technology offers insights into a multitude of human behavior aspects. Used in discrete medical applications today, eye tracking is being developed for upcoming automotive and consumer AR/VR products. The most common approach relies on computer vision to detect eye movements. While it ... Not part of subscription
News Commentary | June 14, 2021
On its latest iOS 15 product reveal, Apple announced that it will enable on‑device processing for its voice assistant Siri on select devices, meaning that users' requests to Siri will be processed locally instead of in the cloud. This will be useful in three ways: Users' requests will be processed ... Not part of subscription
News Commentary | December 15, 2021
The newest AirPods rely on inertial measurement units to track a user's movements and licensed Dolby Atmos technology to adjust sound for the motion. Spatial or 3D sound provides a more immersive experience than static stereo sound and will likely see growing adoption. Spatial sound is a ... To read more, click here.
by Jerrold Wang
Apple, Google, and Amazon used human workers to listen to users' voice clips for improving their voice recognition technology, but this allows them to unwittingly access users' private conversations through smartwatches, smartphones, and speakers when the virtual assistant is wrongly activated. Apple and Google have halted the practice, while Amazon offers an opt-out option to users. The long-term solution should be to require users' opt-in approval and disconnect the clips from the user accounts, such as by modifying the recordings before human review. Clients making smart consumer devices should see that voice data will be less available and should seek partners with either novel models that require less data or existing trained models.
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