Voice-controlled quantum chemistry

Umberto Raucci; Alessio Valentini; Elisa Pieri; Hayley Weir; Stefan Seritan; Todd J Martínez

doi:10.1038/s43588-020-00012-9

Voice-controlled quantum chemistry

Nat Comput Sci. 2021 Jan;1(1):42-45. doi: 10.1038/s43588-020-00012-9. Epub 2021 Jan 14.

Authors

Umberto Raucci^{1

2}, Alessio Valentini^{1

2}, Elisa Pieri^{1

2}, Hayley Weir^{1

2}, Stefan Seritan^{1

2}, Todd J Martínez^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
² SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
³ Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. todd.martinez@stanford.edu.
⁴ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA. todd.martinez@stanford.edu.

PMID: 38217155
DOI: 10.1038/s43588-020-00012-9

Abstract

Over the past decade, artificial intelligence has been propelled forward by advances in machine learning algorithms and computational hardware, opening up myriads of new avenues for scientific research. Nevertheless, virtual assistants and voice control have yet to be widely used in the natural sciences. Here, we present ChemVox, an interactive Amazon Alexa skill that uses speech recognition to perform quantum chemistry calculations. This new application interfaces Alexa with cloud computing and returns the results through a capable device. ChemVox paves the way to making computational chemistry routinely accessible to the wider community.

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