A quote I noticed by Intel senior VP Mooly Eden during a presentation at this year’s CES: “We need to add senses to the brain”. At the time I could only assume Eden was referencing the computer brain, and I was correct. The computer noggin’ grows, and speeds up consistently, but what about how it responds to us? New voice recognition software, nicknamed “Jarvis”, proposed to run on Intel mobile processors, may be arriving soon. Sure we have Apple and Google to thank for current voice recognition trends, but Intel wants to move beyond their sluggish performance.

Voice recognition has been on computers for over a decade. However, it’s new life on mobile devices means tech companies have had to rely on cloud to process the human request. What Google and Siri do to direct and explore for you is identical. In order to categorize and identify what you are asking for, it sends your voice to cloud. Cloud processing has two obvious downfalls. It requires an Internet connection (causing significant delay), and isn’t always accurate. Therefore, the mountain intended to cross, ironically enough, is cloud, and Intel has the perfect plan for this.

Voice recognition software has never been the problem. In actuality, it is more precise than ever. The true issue is computational. Desired information must be compressed, recorded, and sent to servers hundreds of thousands of miles away. Would you expect Siri to answer your question quickly or accurately enough if you knew what ‘it’ had to go through?

With plans to run on powerful mobile processors, Intel’s voice recognition software, Jarvis, will be the latest and fastest responding system to-date. Without cloud, the processors will parse the human voice; listen to commands, and respond in it’s own voice. Most importantly, Jarvis works without an online connection because all the “thinking” and “responding” computes on the device itself. Yep. That means you could be in the Grand Canyon and get directions to the nearest gas station. Even further, actual conversation is expected, such as “Please email Mike”. Additionally, if Jarvis doesn’t know which ‘Mike’ you are referring to, it could ask you ”Please tell me which Mike you would like me to email”. Thanks to Intel, it looks like the senses are increasing. In order for this to make a difference, hardware must be able to respond to voice commands as naturally and quick as a human would. That being said, manufacturers, here’s your chance.