siliconindia | | January 20178IN MY OPINIONRealty will most likely be the highest and quickest adopter of NLP, supporting the homes with on-voice command executionsSAP (NYSE: SAP) is a German multi-national software development company developing enterprise software solutions that enable businesses to manage their operations and customer relations in an efficient and hassle-free way. It has a current market capital of $108.06 billion.By Sauvik Banerjjee, Global CTA, SAPNLP: THE SPEAKING AVATAR OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCELast recorded, India stood at a population of 1.252 billion. 22 official languages, 1652 mother tongues, and a gazillion dialects make India perhaps linguistically the most diverse country in the world. And while we talk of jumping sharks over land and flying cows through blue skies with artificial intelligence, here's an avaatar that can actually make people talk to each other. Not like a Facebook talk to each other. But like a Punjabi, Hebrew and Bengali chat with each other despite each talking in their mother tongue! Sounds like gibberish? But, that's exactly the kind of impact that NLP can affect. And it can do much more than just get people to chat. But First, What Is NLP & Why Are People So Excited About It?NLP exploration on our current digital planet has impacted in various forms in the voice to speech mode, in the form text to speech. The resultant output has been the voice searches on automobiles, and then of course the dictation mechanics of the software world. It became a popular framework when Apple introduced SIRI and Google introduced the YouTube voice search. What does it do? It took over the popular demographics amidst the technology enthusiasts and the kids community using SIRI.Does NLP Only Help Mankind Cosmetically?SIRI has cracked the most popular use case for language processing via NLP. Apple's NLP on voice to text works on 16 global languages and they are meant for languages from English to French to Chinese. These have had an impact on the iPhone community when it comes to uses of searches, or looking for your content in your phone, and has made life easier, lazier and efficient. Multi-lingual internationalization exists for YouTube as well. However, NLP applications can extend into fields with deep reaching impact. Use cases of NLP vary from SIRI kind of applications to more commercially viable ones. Realty will most likely be the highest and quickest adopter of NLP, supporting the homes with on-voice command executions. Yet again, there are several unexplored aspects of this division of NLP that seek attention ­ 1. Medical Aid: NLP can actually make gadgets and homes for physically challenged a cake walk. It could make the challenges and costs of affording an expensive on-demand nurse less necessary.2. Education: By enabling speech to text conver-sion, NLP has the opportunity of reducing language barriers. This in itself will overcome a significant challenge considering that 90 percent of human in-
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