Sherpa
Voice assistants are a feature that is attracting more and more attention on smartphones current. A utility that can save us searching for an application or function, simplifying it with just a spoken command No There is no doubt that Siri has been the most amazing and famous. And that owners of a Samsung Galaxy S3 have their own assistant S Voice But for the others, there is already a solution called SherpaA voice assistant of Spanish origin created for the platform Android that offers an alternativevery valid
Although it looks similar to Siri, the SherpaIt has its own fundamentals very studied and developed All this to achieve a human interaction with the user, being able to understand what they want and not just what is being dictated to them And, according to its founder, Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria, what is sought is for it to be a practical application, which manages to spread among users due to its usefulness In addition, It has a careful visual appearance, with a likeable protagonist who doesn't hesitate to dress up to perform the different tasks that we ask you.
Its operation is based on Internet, so it is mandatory to have a connection, either 3G or WiFi to answer our questions with SherpaAs with Siri, the first thing that Sherpa does is transcribe the command issued . However, this is where the exclusive technology of this application comes in. Although the process seems simple, Sherpa analyzes morphologically, semantically, syntactically, pragmatically and functionally what is dictated With this, he manages not only to understand the dictated words, but also to understand what he wants to find in each context and process it to display it on the screen.
In addition, Sherpa has various sources of information Thus , when consulting a definition, it is possible that this wizard shows us pages from the Wikipedia or use different search engines , which we can configure to use by default.With this and the alliances of Sherpa with the Internet payment services ofPayPal, or streaming music from GoEar.com, the application can offer us agood number of utilities of all kinds.
Thus, we only have to ask for Sherpa to answer with the information we want, either by showing a web page where this information is found, a card with the details of a football match, information about aflight, about time or inform us about current news And not only that. The assistance of Sherpa also allows us to give commands and interact with other applications In this way we can indicate to update our status on Facebook, post a message on Twitter, set up an appointment on on calendar, show the route to a destination, make a mathematical operation, send a text message and so on.
Without a doubt, the path of voice assistants is just beginning, and the horizon is promising Even more so knowing that the main platforms already have one. Siri on Apple and Sherpa on Android, a tool that works very well and plans to continue growing and expanding to other platforms But the best thing is that you can already download completely free, based on your business in commissions for your alliances and the . It is already available for devices with versions of Android 2.2 or later through Google Play.
