Natural language and touch-based interfaces are making data querying significantly easier.
But typed SQL remains the gold standard for query sophistication although it is painful in
many querying environments. Recent advancements in automatic speech recognition raise
the tantalizing possibility of bridging this gap by enabling spoken SQL queries. In this work,
we outline our vision of one such new query interface and system for regular SQL that is
primarily speech-driven. We propose an end-to-end architecture for making spoken SQL …

Speech-driven querying is becoming popular in new device environments such as
smartphones, tablets, and even conversational assistants. However, such querying is largely
restricted to natural language. Typed SQL remains the gold standard for sophisticated
structured querying although it is painful in many environments, which restricts when and
how users consume their data. In this work, we propose to bridge this gap by designing a
speech-driven querying system and interface for structured data we call SpeakQL. We …