Speereo News & Speereo Speech Browser

Speereo Speech Browser – what is it?

Speereo Speech Browser is a web browser for PC that revolutionizes Internet and turns it into Voice Navigated Web! Everything is done with VOICE COMMAND! All links on web-pages are analyzed and become voice commands – i.e. you don’t have to click a link any more – JUST READ IT OUT LOUD. Speereo Speech Recognition System will analyze, recognize and open that link for you.

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Description of Speereo Speech Recognition Technology: Automatic Speech Recognition & Text-To-Speech (ASR & TTS)

All these pages are created for anyone who wants to make own applications and devices friendlier to users, more functional and innovative by voice interface implementation, and for anyone interested.

Miscellaneous attempts to implement voice interfaces brought everyone to following conclusions:

Everybody agrees that such progress is useful and has great future. In some cases voice interface is ‘a must’ due to current lack of user-friendliness, ergonomics or security.
Those technologies that are in use today are not applicable to everyday routine use in mass production devices available to end user. Moreover, they demand silent surrounding that rarely available outside laboratory walls.

At the same time standard requirements to voice interfaces are already well known:

Voice interface must work without errors and be reliable. It will be even better if error level would not exceed 2-3%. Less than 1% - almost perfect.
Voice interface must be noise robust. Speech recognition system must work in everyday noisy surrounding, e.g. at the office, at home, in the street, in the car.
Voice interface must be able to recognize phrases and not separate words with pauses in between.
Voice interface must be speaker independent. The best way would be to have it ready for use right out of the box by anyone.
Voice interface must not consume much of system resources. Speech recognition system must use what is available in handled or embedded devices, because specifically those appliances lack traditional keyboard and mouse and do not require table and chair, i.e. demand alternative interaction scheme.

These are main requirements applied to voice interfaces in general. Do many speech recognition technology developers meet them? We know of one such developer – us, Speereo Software.

In order to offer some factual basis for statement above, we offer you to test our technology quality with demo-portal supplied. Basically we offer you a fully functional product that will allow you to create your own demo voice interface and test it thoroughly. Then you can change list of your own commands and test it again. In order to develop own demo voice interface you have to create standard web-page, where text links will serve as speech commands (i.e. text link ‘open page’ will be recognized by our system as a voice command ‘open page’ and once you say ‘open page’ Speereo Speech Recognition System will open that link). To begin with we offer you a number of examples.

The product that we offer for testing is a web-browser tuned for ‘Voice Internet’ (don’t mix with Internet of today – something completely different). Our product will allow you to create voice interfaces without beginner troubles and mistakes – easy and quick. Feel free to ask us any question.

Once you see the quality and reliability of our technology check out licensing information and compatibility to program platform you are working with. List of compatible platforms is growing constantly. If you are the first developer from supporting a platform we don’t work with yet, we are ready to consider some sort of ‘finder’s fee’, although farseeing platform owners probably have already contacted us with Speereo Technology implementation into their platforms.

Speereo Speech Browser application consists of two modules: browser window and Speereo Speech Recognition System window.

Browser Window

Main window is ascetic for simple reason – we know that you open a browser not to look at it, but to look through it onto web-pages.

Only necessities are visible: your microphone level and speech recognition result.

Your microphone level will show you how well does your system microphone picks up your voice.

Speech recognition result will be displayed at the bottom of the screen just to show you what exactly our system recognized of what you have said.

Speech Recognition System Window

Speech Recognition System window will open each time you start Speereo Speech Browser and can be minimized into your system tray.

This window gives you access to settings and offers a list of available voice commands.

Voice commands list will be specific for each web-page you visit. It displays all available commands that Speereo Speech Recognition System sees on given page.

Speereo Speech Browser HOTWO

So, this looks interesting, you might say, but how do I use it?

Very easy, you say any link you see on the page in front of you. For example look at Speereo News portal web-page here.

You can change theme of news you watch (top navigation bar), you can watch something else in the same category (commands at the bottom), you can access your account or portal preferences (a small link ‘Site Menu’ above info-block by video).

And it is the same way in any other web-page you open – just read out loud the link you wish to open.

Speereo News Portal – what is it?

Speereo News portal was designed and created for two reasons:
a) It is the first and best example of Voice Navigated Web that can be viewed with Speereo Speech Browser;
b) It is the video news portal offering its users news coverage from different point of views – i.e. offering freedom in news consumption, where users decide what to believe after hearing different sides of one story.

Start Page

Portal start page offers links to all main parts of the portal:
- Project/technology/product description;
- Speereo Speech Browser download link;
- Video News section;
- User preferences;
- Exit.

Remember, you can SAY any link you see on this page and Speereo Speech Browser will open it for you.

Preferences and Settings

Once registered with Speereo News portal, you will have access to ‘My preferences’ menu.

Here you can:
- Modify own account information;
- Edit preferences (set news relevancy in days);
- Edit sources that video news will be offered to you.

Again – SAY any link you see and Speereo Voice Browser will open it for you.

Video News start page

Once you say ‘video news’ Speereo Speech Browser will open that section and you will be taken to Speereo News main page. Once again – you can open any link in our portal simply by reading it out loud (with voice command that is).

By default you will see a slide show of screenshots that will display pictures from miscellaneous news videos.

From here you can go to a desired news category (top menu), watch the video that you think is interesting (see voice commands displayed at the bottom of the page) or access Site menu for preferences and settings.

Speereo News portal can be viewed in windowed and full screen modes.

In full screen mode section menu is displayed on the right from video window and voice command tips on the left. To exit full screen more – say ‘Full screen’ once again and browser will display Speereo News in windowed more once again.

Interaction with Speereo News

As mentioned above – use your voice! You can say virtually anything you see on the screen: choose news category, view current video, see next slide or video, go back to the slideshow, etc.

In order to give you freedom of choice – we offer you a unique chance to see what other media sources say on the same subject with ‘another point of view’ voice command. Once you say that command our system will try to match the video that you are viewing to another from different source. That is done based on key words that are attached to the video.

If you do not want to watch news on certain subject – ban it with ‘never show me this’, and vice versa – follow an interesting story by adding key words to your preferences.

List of voice commands and their description

Go back	Go back to previous page.
Go forward	Go forward to next page.
Close browser	Close the current browser window.
All	‘All’ category. Here you will see all video news without theme filters applied.
Politics/World/USA/UK/Europe/Crime/etc.	Misc. categories, where videos are arranged accordingly.
Site menu	Open site menu located just above a video window. There you can access system and personal settings.
View all videos/Previews	These commands are used to switch between viewing the video news and announcements.
Back	Go to a previous video or screen shot in slide show.
Next	See next video or slide.
Start running first	Once such command is given next time you go to Speereo News the system will look up videos that have most of key words that were attached to video that you marked with ‘start running first’. That way you can follow an interesting story for some time.
Full screen	View Speereo News in full screen mode/exit full screen mode to windowed.
Pause/Play	Pause or play video.
Watch this one	Once you see an interesting video during the screenshot slide show, say ‘Watch this one’ and full video will be loaded and played for you. Once video ends you will be taken back to the slideshow.
Never show this	Once you say this command, our system will automatically fish out videos with similar keywords so that you will never be offered such news.
Enough about that today	This command rids you from videos on current subject for one day. NOTE: next day you’ll be offered news on similar theme again.
Another point of view for this	This command makes Speereo News portal search for other videos on same theme that other sources offer. That way you can see different opinions on one subject.
Continue to show news/Back to slideshow	This command takes you back to the slideshow that will be loaded after a short break.
Add key words	Once said this command will add chosen keyword to your search. Videos will be shown with relevancy to chosen keyword.
Hide/show right menu	This command is for full screen mode only.
Hide/show commands	This command is for full screen mode only.
Delete source	Once you issue this command the source of current video will be excluded from your viewing, i.e. if you say this command while watching BBC video spot, you will not see BBC videos anywhere.
Delete keywords	Once you issue this command you will not see videos that do not contain any of keywords you have deleted.
Add keywords	This command will make videos with any chosen keyword (of those you’ve added) more relevant, i.e. such videos will be shown first.
Delete keywords altogether	Any video that contains all keywords that you’ve deleted will not be shown to you. If a video’s keywords list does not match to your deleted keywords list exactly – it will be shown.
Add keywords altogether	If all marked keywords are found in a video it will be considered more relevant and shown firs.
Clear selected words	Delete selected keywords from the search filter
Clear all words	All words are deleted from search filter. Videos will be offered based on their date.
Stop	Stop video.
View all videos	All available videos in selected category will be played in full.
Previews	Go back from viewing videos back to slideshow.
Rate this video / Close this window	Open / close vote
Excellent story; Interesting story; Boring story; I hate this	Commands vote for the current movie.

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