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Posted on: Jul 08, 2021

The world is changing fast.
The future is now.

When was the last time you used speech recognition? Or heard of Amazon Alexa, Google Home or Apple’s Siri?

What is speech recognition?

Speech recognition is the use of artificial intelligence to process human speech into written form (IBM Cloud Education, 2020).

Today, the workplace is changing and constantly evolving to use Smart Technology in our everyday lives. It improves our lives for the better.

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Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce

Another application of speech recognition is sound recognition, recognizing sound rather than speech. Artificial intelligence can detect certain hazardous sounds. This could be extremely useful for people with hearing loss.

In 2020, Apple released a feature to allow your iPhone to alert you if it hears a doorbell or a fire alarm to help people who have difficulty hearing (Krales, 2020). 

In our hazardous work environment, sound detection can save your life. Imagine you are working in a noisy environment. A Construction site? Mining site? What if a truck backing up is about to hit you and you couldn’t hear it, wouldn’t you like to get notified instantly?

Blocking out noise to protect your hearing is a great idea, but traditional earplugs muffle all sounds, including warnings that might save your life. This is a life-threatening scenario. In a noisy environment, warning signals are often considered to be weak. A better idea is to allow artificial intelligence technology to scan for essential signals like a backup warning with sound detection algorithms. This way, your ears are protected from the engine noise of heavy equipment, and you’ll still hear a backup warning. 

If artificial intelligence technology can actively listen for warning signals for you, you can now safely wear hearing protection and not worry about missing a warning signal.

Our Solution

The future capabilities of artificial intelligence are endless. Artificial Intelligence will save your life one day.

What if artificial intelligence can detect smells? A stove burning? Harmful air pollution? Think about these situations yourself. What would you want artificial intelligence to create?

There will always be technology developing that will make our lives safer and better.

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