What is a Voice Dialer?
A voice dialer is software that is often included with newer mobile phones that allows the user to dial a phone number by speaking the number or contact name into the phone. There are actually two software pieces at work in such a process. The first software package recognizes the voice commands and the second package operates the call feature of the telephone. The technology of the voice dialer has been improved over the years. When phones first started coming out with voice dialers, training was needed. The voice dialer could not intuitively understand what a caller was saying. Therefore, the user was required to speak the names of all contacts, then repeat the name into the phone when voice activation was initiated. This led to a number of problems. First, training a voice dialer took a substantial amount of time, especially for those who had dozens or hundreds of contacts. Second, the voice dialer was only trained for one person’s voice, meaning others could not use the feature on
