Google Now and Siri will soon have a new competitor after Tim Tuttle introduces his latest iPad application called MindMeld. The application is expected to be available in the fall and is taking digital personal assistance one step ahead of the competition by constantly listening to conversations, so it can understand and extract relevant data, which is then used to search and then display results by importance. This information is extracted from search engines, videos, user’s social networking profiles, news articles, and even from documents, which are stored locally.
As an example, if a person using MindMeld says during a phone call that John is coming to Toronto and he would like to visit the CN Tower, the smart phone app will immediately pick up on the keywords and show Toronto and CN Tower tour links along with a map of the locality in real time. This functionality, which is key to MindMeld is called “anticipatory computing”, as it enables you to look at information before you have even started searching for it.
Tuttle explains the concept behind MindMeld by saying, “We’re listening to the last ten minutes to predict what you need in the next ten seconds. We’re trying to make it so you never have to explicitly search for something you’ve already talked about.”
The efficiency of MindMeld comes from its program which is designed to perform three tasks. First it can decode a conversation between multiple parties, distinguishing one voice from another. Secondly, it picks up important key words in real time from simultaneous streams of conversation and thirdly it can perform continuous, prognostic modeling, which means that it listens to a discussion in order to comprehend what has been said earlier and what might be uttered next. As a result of this, the application incessantly keeps searching and retrieving data for users.
In contrast to Android’s Google Now and Apple’s Siri users do not need to talk to the MindMeld agent to obtain any answers. MindMeld’s innovative approach should give its predecessors some stiff competition. More users will be able to get their hands on the app once it is also released on the iPhone later this year.
The application can listen to a conversion and perform its task only if all the users involved in the conversation have installed it on their iOS devices. This means that if a user has not given the app permission to listen in to a conversation the app will not turn on, eliminating security and privacy concerns that some may have.
Tuttle is going through lot of effort to ensure that this application runs smoothly prior its launch, so as to provide instant legitimacy and eliminate any inconsistencies in its service delivery. If everything goes according to Tuttle’s plan, it is expected that MindMeld will diverge the focus of both Google Now and Siri. Moreover, it is also rumoured that this new application could be conjugal with Google Goggles, as this sub company of Google has provided $2.4 million funds for this venture.
Source: Arstechnica
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