Samsung filed a patent to automatically update the phone book Bashny.Net

The new patent from Samsung describes a technique to automatically update the phone book of the mobile device. According to their theory, your smartphone handles and stores the voice pattern of your friends whose numbers have in your phone book. And next time, when a friend suddenly call you with an unknown phone number, his voice will be recognized. After this smartphone has to offer to add it to the list of the new number.

Of course, while this is only a patent. It will be interesting to try the technology in practice, check the quality of voice recognition. Also raises questions about the need for such an opportunity - after all, ordinary people rarely change their phone numbers. Especially because in many countries it is already possible to change operator without having to change rooms.

If we imagine the possibility of further expansion of the use of technology, by analogy with the recognition of the people in the photos to Facebook, you can imagine a cloud storage vocal patterns that identifies the caller's voice, even if you have a phone in the book was not. The fact that such a system is already quite simple to do, can not but arouse feelings of anxiety supporters of privacy and personal privacy.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/245044/