The Era of Information Technology
Around one hundred and fifty years ago, businesses ran their day to day operations completely different from what businesses of the modern era do to run their day to day operations. People back then worked under candle light doing math calculations on paper, the old fashion way, before electricity came about in the early 20th century. Now, most of the civilized world wouldn’t know what to do with themselves without technology. Imagine not even having a calculator for math or the internet to do research. Yes, I know, it is hard to believe people were able to survive without these advanced tools that we take for granted each day. The advances in communication combined with the evolution of the IT industry has made it possible for people to do business throughout the world in real time. Improvements in IT improve our lifestyles and business by allowing computers to reduce complications and enrich possibilities.
Voice Recognition Technology
You probably have heard about voice recognition that allows you to “talk” to a computer, so that it can convert your speech into text. It has been around for more than fifty years now. Developments in voice recognition technology through the years has made it possible for a computer to recognize continuous speech, several voices and various speech patterns and even different languages.
There are three ways that voice recognition technology can meet your needs: command and control, dictation and text-to-speech capability.
In this kind of technology, your voice works as the input device. By uttering a command, you can navigate menus, toolbars and activate different applications. Likewise, you can also dictate words through a microphone and let the computer convert them into text instead of typing them through the keyboard.