Apple Building its Own Speech Recognition Team to Power Siri
Earlier this month,
The Wall Street Journal claimed that Nuance, which is responsible for the technology behind Apple's virtual assistant Siri, was in talks with Samsung Electronics about a possible acquisition. Now, a new
report from
Wired states that Apple is forming its own in-house speech recognition team to power the next-generation of Siri.
“Apple is not hiring only in the managerial level, but hiring also people on the team-leading level and the researcher level,” says Abdel-rahman Mohamed, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, who was courted by Apple. “They’re building a very strong team for speech recognition research.”
Throughout the past few years, Apple has hired a number of high-level speech researchers in Nuance, including former vice president of research
Larry Gillick. A number of those researchers are working at Apple's office in Boston, which was also
rumored last year to be working on an in-house Siri solution that moves away from Nuance's technologies.
While the forthcoming version of Siri in
iOS 8 still features the same technology provided by Nuance, it is possible that Apple could debut its own in-house voice recognition solution in a future version of iOS. Siri in iOS 8 will feature a number enhancements, including hands-free "Hey Siri" voice activation, music recognition
by way of Shazam, streaming voice recognition, and more. Apple will launch iOS 8 this fall.
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