Apr 24 2008
Your future computer will talk to you!
A new computer system in on its way to develop which will be able to talk to you and can react to your voice and facial expressions!
A team at Queen’s University in Belfast claimed making this ‘talking computer’ known as Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) system, as part of an European project called SEMAINE which is led by DFKI, the German centre for research on Artificial Intelligence.
The new system SAL will be able to perceive human being’s facial expressions; voice tone and perform different actions accordingly.
Lead researcher Prof Roddy Cowie said, “A basic feature of human communication is that it is coloured by emotion. When we talk to another person, the words are carried on an undercurrent of signs that show them what attracts us, what bores us and so on.”
He told that non-interacting behavior of computers is one of the reasons which make people frustrating while working.
He stated, “SEMAINE and projects like it will change the way people interact with technology. They mean that you will be talking to your computer in 20 years’ time.”
“These new developments depend on connecting technology to the relevant understanding of people, and it is recognized worldwide that we have a distinctive strength in bringing psychology, linguistics and ethics to bear on the process of developing the new systems.” He added.
The new system will definitely make the work more interesting and the interaction with machine will give a new definition to the technology.
