Intel, Samsung Investing in Digital Voice Startup Expect Labs

Intel, Telefonica, and Samsung are have announced that they?ll be making strategic investments in Expect Labs, a company that hopes to use its research to extend the speech capabilities of mobile devices and provide predictive search results even without the user asking for the search.

The investments, all three of which originated from their respective company?s investment arms, are meant to bolster Expect Lab?s cash on hand as they move to better interpret user?s conversations to deliver predictive results based on speech context. ?According to the company?s website, using two years of research and development, the company hopes to create a platform that can understand conversations and speech in real time.? This involves, signal analysis, language analysis, predictive text modeling, and a service that can grasp information fed to it in real-time like photos, social graphs, documents, emails and videos.

A screenshot of an application powered by Expect Labs? ACE

So far the most high profile product the company has been working on deals with anticipating what users will do next. That produced, dubbed ACE or Anticipatory Computing Engine, is meant to help predict what users will do, in real-time.

If feasible that kind of technology would immediately have large ramifications in the smartphone industry where the specification wars of the past few years have been replaced by a battle in which each manufacturer attempts to create new ways in which their device might make the lives of users easier.

Source: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/04/30/intel-samsung-investing-in-digital-voice-startup-expect-labs/

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