Chinese Speech Recognition Edge Impacts Future of Apartments in Bangalore

Emerging speech recognition technologies may be pertinent to those who own apartments in Bangalore and work in the cities thriving IT sector. Swiftly advancing technologies capable of tasks which ten years ago were impossible to be automated are emerging from companies which are capitalizing on colossal data that has been gathered for over a decade. A new technology from the Chinese search engine giant Baidu will now make it possible for people to text message with greater speed and accuracy than ever before using only speech. Speech recognition software was available nearly twenty years ago yet failed to attract a large number of users as it was not very reliable at that time. Today technologies are developing so rapidly that Baidu in collaboration with two American universities has used its massive search engine database to create language recognition software that is more accurate and faster than some of the fastest humans who type.

Clearly, technology is rapidly evolving and as more people time online punching in queries on search engines, newer ways to map human thought shall emerge. Features such as Google Instant search would likely never have emerged before they did nearly six years had Google not already had an idea of the kinds of keywords people use to search. Now the Chinese, which had banned Google more than a decade ago, have a huge corpus of data also gleaned from the thought patterns of living humans which allow them to digitalize the spoken word into a written format faster than was possible earlier. To be fair, Baidu has an advantage recognizing words as spoken and written Chinese are virtually identical. Yet the thoughts behind the written and spoken and words are similar across languages and hence the fact that a newer speech recognition language emerges by the efforts of the Chinese search engine giant is unsurprising. CEO’s who live in luxury apartments in Bangalore should take note of a large number of newer formidable technologies emerging from China while IT workers in Bangalore continue to carry out relatively routine and mundane tasks. Bangalore may lose its edge as a center of IT to China if efforts are not made to develop innovative technologies which can rival or surpass those emerging elsewhere across the globe.

Millions of search queries are typed into a single search engine each day, the data gleaned from such search results is gold to IT companies even as it generates revenue for the search engine. Top builders in Bangalore today rely on Google for much of their advertising; a high page rank by Google is prized by many builders and developers in Bangalore. Yet despite the fact that the CEO of Google is of Indian origin most of the benefits which accrue from Indian search queries go into American hands. Baidu is a credible threat to Google’s worldwide dominance. The ability to use language to map human thoughts will likely be crucial to developing newer technologies and may even be at the core of developing strong Artificial Intelligence.

A viable domestic search engine is crucial, even if such an engine is developed and promoted by the public sector. Upcoming projects in Bangalore, advertised on the big three search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, will be better served by a powerful domestic search engine whose page ranking mechanism better takes into account Indian businesses and the Indian mentality. Advertising from technologies for industries such as real estate which includes luxury and affordable property in Bangalore should be in domestic hands. Western publications such as the New York Times prognosticated dire times ahead for China’s economy when the Chinese government banned Google in China, however, today, China’s local search engine is the model IT company which has mountains of useful data it can use to benefit Chinese business and to develop next generation technologies.