One of the reasons to buy smart home appliances, such as those from the Samsung Bespoke line, are for the little improvements like, having to only tap on the side of the fridge to open it. This feature, which the company calls Auto Open Door, has been around for awhile. And it ranges from the aforementioned tapping on the sides to open the door, to just using voice commands to achieve the same.
With that in mind, Samsung says starting this year, it is expanding the Auto Open Door feature to more products. Their voice command functionality will also be upgraded. This means going straight to, say, “open the fridge door” rather than having to prompt it beforehand with “Hi Bixby”.
The way this works is, as Samsung execs claim, using low-power and low latency tech. This allows for the skipping of wake up phrases, and allow the low-power keyword detection and on-device automatic speech recognition to kick in immediately.
That latter bit of tech is made using what is called Zero-shot text-to-speech, which Samsung also developed. This synthesises voices for the training of the speech recognition tech, rather than manually recording sentences in different voices.
Worth noting at this point that this comes from a self-published interview by Samsung with its own employees of the Digital Appliances (DA) Business, and the AI Solution Team. Despite this, there isn’t much in terms of specifics. There’s no mention of which sort of devices are getting the voice recognition upgrade. Nor is there a list of new products that didn’t previously have Auto Open Door and are getting it now.
(Source: Samsung)
