为苹果Siri提供相关技术的支持语音技术公司Nuance今天发布了Dragon TV平台，你可以利用它来实现语音控制电视。你可以通过说出频道号、电视台名称、电视节目或电影名称就可以实现电视的语音搜索。你也可以通过演员进行内容搜索。
Dragon TV平台将提供给那些选择将语音技术融入到电视、机顶盒和遥控器等应用设备中的设备和服务商。Nuance选择在这个时候发布语音控制电视的Dragon TV平台是非常引人注目的。最近，关于苹果即将推出新一代融合Siri等语音控制应用的电视产品的传闻不断涌现，乔布斯也曾说过他已经知道如何设计一款超功能集成Apple TV。而在苹果相关产品发布之前，Nuance已经发布了Dragon TV 平台。
此外，Dragon TV也对Facebook和Twitter等社交网络进行了融合，你可以通过语音发布信息和更新状态。Nuance表示Dragon TV能够运行在Linux、Android和iOS平台上。
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Nuance’s Dragon TV offers voice recognition platform for connected televisions
Nuance isn’t skipping a beat in Las Vegas, as the speech recognition company is busy launching a brand new platform that focuses on bringing its technology to connected TVs. According to the company, the platform, called Dragon TV, can be used to build customized voice and touch apps that run on televisions, set-top boxes, phones and tablets. Essentially, the technology will allow the viewer to use their voice to conduct searches, send messages and access plenty of other features, and mobile devices can be used to act as a remote to control the TV. Nuance’s new platform is available now for OEMs, developers and operators to take advantage of, and supports Linux, Android and iOS as well as all major TV, set-top box and remote control standards. Head past the break for the full press release, and make your way to the company’s site below to get more details.
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NUANCE UNVEILS DRAGON TV
TV, Device and Set-Top Box OEMs and Service Operators Will Transform the Digital Living Room with Nuance’s Voice, Natural Language Understanding and Touch Innovations for Content Discovery and Social Media Engagement
Las Vegas and Burlington, Mass. – January 9, 2012 – Nuance Communications Inc. today unveiled Dragon TV, a unique voice and natural language understanding platform for TV, device and set-top box OEMs and service operators. Dragon TV makes finding and accessing shows, movies and content in today’s digital living room easy and fun for consumers. Leveraging Nuance’s renowned voice and natural language understanding capabilities, Dragon TV creates the “lean-back experience” consumers demand, with the ability to easily find content by speaking channel numbers, station names, show and movie names. People can even search for content by actor and genre – and stay connected via Twitter, Facebook and Skype.
An estimated 1.6 billion TVs will be connected by 2014 according to Strategy Analytics – and the broad spectrum of channels and media options available today are already nearly impossible to navigate with traditional TV remotes. Consumers have more options and media than they’re even aware of, and still can’t find “what’s on.” Dragon TV changes all of that, giving OEMs and service operators the ability to deliver TVs, set top boxes and applications that let consumers find and experience content with Nuance’s leading voice technologies. Further, Nuance’s renowned natural language understanding technologies allow consumers to say virtually anything to quickly and easily discover shows, movies and more. For instance, people can say:
“Go to PBS”
“What’s on Bravo at 9 p.m. tonight?”
“When is Ellen on?”
“Watch Dexter on DVR”
“Find comedies with Vince Vaughn”
“Play David Guetta on Music Choice”
Dragon TV also makes it even easier to stay connected from the couch leveraging the unique messaging and social media capabilities that today’s digital TV OEMs and operators offer, such as email, messaging, Twitter, Facebook and Skype. For instance, people can say:
“Send message to Julie, ‘Old School is on TBS again this weekend – super excited'”
“Send update to Facebook, ‘Anyone else looking forward to Celebrity Wife Swap?’
“Call John via Skype” and be talking in no time
Dragon TV is incredibly flexible, and can be integrated across embedded, connected and hybrid modes, allowing TV, device and set-top box OEMs, and service operators to take advantage of the content available on the device and in the cloud. Dragon TV features include:
Seamless Application Control: Digital home devices are now integrating applications for e-mail, social networking and interactive communication. Dragon TV offers a straightforward and simple method of input to drive adoption.
Discovering: A wealth of information is now available over TV, including program guide listings, personal media and web content. Dragon TV delivers a seamless, universal search solution allowing users to access this content with ease.
Messaging: From social networking to e-mail, the availability of messaging applications on TV continues to grow. With Dragon TV users are empowered to interact and communicate via an integrated text and speech solution.
Accessibility: Governments and standards bodies are now mandating accessible solutions for TV. Leveraging Nuance’s core speech technologies and natural language understanding, Dragon TV makes TV accessible to everyone.
Complex Acoustics: With Nuance’s Far-Talk technology, Dragon TV is able to break through the interferences of multiple acoustic sources and focus on what’s important for interpreting commands – the users voice.
“Traditional search on televisions is tedious and amazingly outdated,” said Mike Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “Dragon TV brings an amazing voice experience, similar to what people do everyday on their phones and in their cars, directly to the living room.”
Availability
Dragon TV is currently available for TV, device OEMs, operators and developers, supporting all major TV, set-top box, remote control and application platforms, including Linux, Android and iOS.
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