'Darwin' to boost cell phone's voice recognition

LONDON, UK: Are you looking for a way to increase the performance of your cellphone, especially to pool the plethora of data gathered from phone sensors such as microphones? Now you can haver such a system.

A team of scientists, led by Emilia no Miluzzo of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has created software to improve the accuracy of the sensor data collected, said New Scientist.

The software, called 'Darwin', recognizes an event, such as a specific person's voice, and how that may change in different conditions, such as when that person is in a noisy room, said the journal. The phones then share this information with other phones that contain the software.

This sharing allowed phones with Darwin to correctly identify which person was speaking with up to 90 per cent accuracy, compared with just 60 per cent in a control group that didn't have the software on their phones.

“By relying on the resources around you, you get better results. The idea is to make the sensing process on phones scalable,” New Scientist quoted Miluzzo as saying.