Microsoft Research has been sitting on various improvements it made to the AI voice and natural language recognition for a while now, but today Microsoft’s research team and the Bing team have allowed Windows Phone to get a taste of it. Showed off earlier in a tech demo at one of the various developer conferences, the new update to Bing’s voice search and voice recognition is now twice as fast and about 15% more accurate. This update is gradually rolling out for Windows Phone users in the US right now, and will eventually reach out to the rest of the world in the coming weeks and months.
These voice features are a part of a larger research work done by the MSR team, says Microsoft. The bigger system in the works is apparently called the “Deep neural networks” which is mining a mountain of data and processing them right now for improvements in the future like natural language conversations, translation of voice to another language instantly, and a lot more futuristic implementations that are far away from a phone ecosystem for now.
That said, we are looking forward to seeing how natural language evolves in the Microsoft side of things, as Google and Apple already have a head start with interestingly different products. You can check out the video demonstration from the Bing voice team here.
via Windows Blogs