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Abstract

"Will voice control soon replace typing?" More and more linguistic assistants like Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana or Apple's Siri have recently entered the market and its usage is already possible in many applications. The market trend shows that many of our interactions with technology take place through conversations today, but does this trend also apply to mapping applications? Con terra picked up on this trend and carried out its first realizations. It uses natural language understanding (NLU) to control web mapping applications. For example, if one could say "show me the distribution of porpoises in the summer of 2013" instead of searching in a table of content, it would be a great advantage for the users. Also functions like “zoom” or“pan” can be well performed using voice control. In addition to an introduction to the topic, this article introduces the exemplary implementation of voice control for a mapping application. For the software map.apps a voice recognition was implemented and trained. Commands like "zoom", "pan" or the map theme selection have been realized. The results were implemented and tested for applications in biodiversity monitoring.