Enhancing Smart-Home Experiences with AI-Based Voice Control

Voice control has emerged as the long-awaited solution to cut through the complexity of the smart-home experience, but there’s more than meets the eye when integrating voice into the home.

What you’ll learn:
– How AI and machine learning can be used to personalize smart-home devices.
– How to design voice control for convenience and usability.
– Technical issues to evaluate when planning the development of voice-controlled smart-home environments.

The way we live, work, and play has been forever altered by smart-home technologies. When you enter a new home, chances are you’ll find the technology around every corner, from large appliances such as refrigerators and laundry machines to the unexpected like window shades. Technology existing within these products increasingly aims to make homeowners’ lives easier through automation and personalization. The newest way to level up convenience is through one of the oldest tools we have—our own voice.

Today, a sizable majority of U.S. homes, some 69%, own at least one smart-home device. The smart-home market is exploding, and voice control is an essential component. The Speech Recognition market itself is being driven by the popularity of voice-activated virtual assistants—often referred to as “smart speakers”—as well as voice-recognition hardware and software that’s been embedded into smartphones, smart-home devices, and vehicles, among other settings.

Voice Control for All

Tech enthusiasts aren’t the only ones enhancing their smart homes through voice control. Voice control makes smart-home technology accessible for individuals with disabilities, including sight or mobility issues. Even people who aren’t technologically inclined, such as the aging-in-place population, can use voice control to enhance their homes and achieve a specific task. Voice capability is no longer a novelty; it’s fast becoming an expected product feature.

Amazon, Apple, and Google are well-known names in the voice market for smart home. Nonetheless, many other solutions are available to the manufacturers of smart-home devices that wish to integrate voice control. The alternatives can provide more customized end-user experiences while still retaining interoperability with these larger voice ecosystems if desired. The “best” voice platform for product developers depends entirely on the individual use case for each product or system.[…]

Voice control has emerged as the long-awaited solution to cut through the complexity of the smart-home experience, but there’s more than meets the eye when integrating voice into the home.

Voice Control for All

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