How Speech Recognition Makes Living with Disability Easier
Voice Assistants such as Apple Siri, Google assistant, and Amazon Echo have become common household names in the past few years. In fact, CNN names these voice assistants as " one of the 6 big trends to watch out for " in 2018. The underlying technology enabling voice assistants is called as Speech Recognition i.e. a way for the computing devices to understand the human spoken word. Although these products have been advertised as a way to improve productivity, they can be a game changer for the disabled, especially the ones who have difficulty operating computing devices due to a problem in their upper limbs. As in mobile devices, speech recognition technology can also be used to operate computers. In the remainder of this post, I describe various ways that I use speech recognition in order to accomplish daily tasks that I was not able to do before. I'm going to focus mostly on Google Assistant and Dragon NaturallySpeaking as these are the products I use