Neural Technologies Ltd has developed a neural-based speech identification system for police and ambulance emergency services that recognises spoken words, filtering out radio static. Neural Technologies specialises in bringing to market commercial applications for neural computing and expects successful applications to make their quickly way into business products such as speech recognition, voice control and taking vocal minutes over video conferences. The neural technology, as yet without a name, is not due to be announced until later this month. It is claimed to filter out unexpected noises such as static and spurious radio emissions and is believed to be suitable for emergency services to register words such as ‘may day’, ‘help’ or ‘fire’. Research and development of the project was commissioned by the UK Home Office. Neural Technologies believes that its speech recognition technique succeeds where previous systems have failed because it uses an intuitive learning process that builds its vocabulary rather than being programmed with a specific model. Neural Technologies claims 95% accuracy of comprehension using the technique.
