

Over time, you’ll notice that certain presentations float to the top more often than others, because you tend to choose them more often, though occasionally, the AI mixes things up, because it “realizes” through analysing your history with the app that you may be going overboard with that particular layout and should try others for variety. Why don’t you use this kind of presentation?” The program is saying “This looks like a pyramid, or a timeline, or a set of bucket categorizations. When Microsoft Powerpoint suggests alternatives visualizations to the boring old bullet points slide, the effect is to change behavior by giving a nudge.

These kinds of instances do not flash “artificial intelligence” at first blush. It can be argued in all three cases, that this does eliminate the need for a human being to do these tasks, but let’s face it - these are tasks that nobody would prefer to do unless they really had no choice. Photoshop’s Select Subject eliminates the need for very painstaking selection of an image. Auto-transcription takes a task that would likely take me several hours to do manually and reduces it to seconds so that I can focus on the content. Grammarly doesn’t change my voice significantly as a writer. Cisco SpeechView transcribes telephone voicemail to email and SMS text messages, but not in real-time i.e, not for an active conversation.What’s evident from these examples is that this kind of augmentative AI can be used to do those parts of a task or operation that were high cost for very little value add otherwise. On the other end of the spectrum Adobe Connect provides excellent video, audio, and computing collaboration tools, but lacks any transcription capabilities. For example, Dragon Speaking Naturally works rather well for adding voice recognition capabilities to many applications and the folks at Dragon have developed specialized vocabularies for the medical and legal professions. In theory, there are multiple products that are capable of providing real-time audio and video across a wide variety of networks and platforms however, none of these products have options for real-time transcription capabilities and can be combined with IP telephony. It seems the primary focus for the industry has been on providing automated transcription products which produce email or text messages for later review by the end user. What is sorely needed, but extraordinarily difficult to find real-time voice transcription for secure speech to text communications for deaf or hard of hearing persons. The audio message remains in the user’s voicemail box and can be retrieved at any time.

Initially the service will support English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. It will be marketed through authorized Cisco channels in North and South America and Europe SpeechView featureing Naunce Voice-to-Text messaging. Cisco will package the service as part of its Unified Communications System 8.0. As for Cisco, it will find that rendering voice messages as an email or text message will be an indispensable, and frequently-used component of its mobile enterprise strategy.Ĭisco SpeechView with Nuance Voice-to-Text transcription will automatically transcribe all voicemail messages and deliver them as email, with attached audio files for review and the caller ID in the subject line. The deal reflects Nuance’s stepped up focus on multi-modal messaging in the enterprise. Nuance Communications announced that Cisco is integrating its voice messaging transcription service into Cisco Unity, the IP-telephony giant’s unified messaging platform.
