2014 is a year of full explosion for mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad. Many mobile phone brands have released flagship products. In contrast to the past, only Apple and Samsung have occupied the domestic market. This year, domestic mobile phones have made great efforts in the middle and high-end market and have shown good performance. The workmanship of domestic brand mobile phones is more perfect, and the user experience is more optimized. To be sure, domestic mobile phone manufacturers have made more profound accumulation and precipitation in product research and development, manufacturing and communication technology. Although the appearance of domestic smart phones always seems to be the same as that of Apple, their functions are unique. So, what is the future trend of smart phones? Why is it that smart voice phones will become popular?
Smart voice features prominently, and 4G network paves the way for its development
Entering the era of smart phones, Website production It has become an established fact that the weight has been reduced and the mobile Internet has risen, moving towards a more humane direction. No matter what kind of device, it will eventually be more like a person, so that it can better serve human beings, which is also the most fundamental principle in the process of human-computer interaction. As the most primitive and natural way of information transmission, voice has high efficiency. People's language control ability has also been continuously enhanced in the long-term evolution process. At the same time, the non-contact transmission characteristics of voice also make it more suitable for a large number of specific people who have obstacles in vision, touch, etc. (such as the elderly, amblyopia, disabled people) or are not suitable (such as children need to protect their eyesight). In terms of security, although many smart phones have begun to vigorously promote fingerprint recognition, relevant statistics show that fingerprint theft (with fingerprint information on the phone itself) has gradually become a new way for hackers to steal target phone information, but voice is relatively safer.
In the 2G and 3G era, the lack of traffic limits many functions of smart voice phones. For example, massive voice databases need network support, big data processing needs network support, and voice recognition also needs network support. With the popularity of 4G networks, traffic has greatly increased, which also provides convenient conditions for the rapid progress of voice. When speech recognition is more accurate, it will inevitably promote the use experience of voice interaction. Such a cycle will play an important role in the enrichment and development of voice interaction applications. In addition, artificial intelligence algorithms are also constantly making breakthroughs. In the future, introducing deep learning research in the field of machine learning into speech recognition acoustic model training will greatly improve the accuracy of acoustic models. Once the mobile phone can use the deep neural network model, the error rate of speech recognition will be reduced by 30%, thus helping voice interaction to form a true "walk to run".
Intelligent voice has scale effect and many practical benefits
With the advent of the 4G era, more and more applications have been popularized and voice functions have been added. Google estimates that at present about 50% of Android devices search through voice, and SA, a consulting company, predicts that smart machines with voice and gesture haptic feedback technology are now very popular on high-end smart machines. In 2014, the delivery scale will reach 570 million, accounting for about half of the penetration rate (smart machines). It will also be popularized to the middle and low end in the future. Mobile intelligent terminal is expected to become the largest scale market of intelligent voice technology. With the dependence of human beings on intelligent devices and the increasingly frequent interaction between human and computer, the original control mode has become more and more complex and inefficient, and a new and simpler operation mode is urgently needed; Once voice becomes the mainstream means of interaction, it can achieve unified and concise instructions for various devices, greatly reducing human requirements for intelligent device operation and saving time for human-computer interaction.
In fact, intelligent voice also brings more benefits to human beings in practical applications. Take the smart voice phone as an example: when the user is driving, it is very convenient to wake up and unlock the phone with voice, and call colleagues and friends in the address book with voice; An editor friend of the author recorded a voice during the meeting. After the meeting, he quickly recorded the key points of the meeting through the voice to text function and sent them to leaders and colleagues as quickly as possible. In addition, smart voice is also a "diversion portal" in smart home, smart car, smart wear and other fields, enabling smart phones to build a bridge between people and other smart devices.
Intelligent voice affects human beings, from cars to mobile phones and search
There is no doubt that intelligent voice interaction will affect people in the future, ranging from cars to mobile phones and search. The Wall Street Journal, a foreign media, revealed that General Motors of the United States is preparing to cooperate with VocalIQ to develop a more intelligent voice system, which can enable car owners to operate their cars more intelligently with voice. At the Baidu World Conference, Robin Li also pointed out that "consumer behavior is changing in the mobile era, and the proportion of voice to express demand will exceed 50% in the next five years". Search engine applications have also entered the voice era.
As the pioneer of intelligent voice interactive applications, Google and Apple have made a lot of substantive progress even though they entered the market early. However, after years of accumulation, voice technology is no longer the dominant position of an international giant. Among domestic intelligent terminal equipment providers, ZTE, Lenovo, Huawei, etc. are represented. Unlike the other two, ZTE cooperates with scientific research institutions such as Audience, Nuance, Baidu, Gaode, and the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to integrate industry-leading technologies and resources, Promote the development of terminal voice technology, and promote the large-scale application and popularization of smart voice.
Therefore, from the perspective of future mobile phone development trends, smart voice is likely to become popular. This is not only because it is faster and more convenient to use voice to control mobile phones, but also because of the contribution of 4G networks to traffic, thus accelerating the formation of voice technology. In the future, not only do giants want to make breakthroughs in smart voice, but smart phones with voice interaction technology and functions are also likely to become a shining star in the future smart phone market.
