This would work nicely for a new Apple Bluetooth headset. Stream music and calls into the headset and control it via voice options.
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This is already possible on PCs. See the Attention Mode demos here. Cute girl avatars, too.
But really, I think we used speech recognition more back in the bad old home computer days of the early 80s. It seemed "more Trek like" then, and was amazing. Now it can be done so easily and far more accurately.
Bring on the trek
I believe I read somewhere that Steve Jobs once said that he wants to bring star trek tech to life.
This is one step towards every geeks dream.
Imagine this: You hold up your Iphone, hit a button on the side and say, "What is the half life of Carbon 14"
The Iphone recognizes your query, hops on LTE and useing google, finds the answer. 1 second after you ask the question you hear the reply:
"5173 years".
The information also flashed on the screen in case your volume is off.
How freaking awsome would that be?
Now imagine they perfect the technology so you can do the same thing as they did on star trek TNG:
"Computer I'm in the mood for some music".
please specify
"Something uplifting"
Iphone starts playing gospel music
"No, something with a beat I can dance too".
Iphone starts playing "please don't stop the music" by Rheanna.
That day is coming soon, maybe not in the 2009 Iphone or even the 2010 Iphone, but by 2011 the Iphone will be running on a quad or even Octa core CPU and have 128 GB of flash hardrive space and 1 GB of RAM.
This will allow for a 10 GB OS that includes the kind of kick ass voice recognition and AI software that would be needed to totally Trek out the Iphone.
I have seen the future and the future is sweet!
I believe I read somewhere that Steve Jobs once said that he wants to bring star trek tech to life.
This is one step towards every geeks dream.
Imagine this: You hold up your Iphone, hit a button on the side and say, "What is the half life of Carbon 14"
The Iphone recognizes your query, hops on LTE and useing google, finds the answer. 1 second after you ask the question you hear the reply:
"5173 years".
The information also flashed on the screen in case your volume is off.
How freaking awsome would that be?
Now imagine they perfect the technology so you can do the same thing as they did on star trek TNG:
"Computer I'm in the mood for some music".
please specify
"Something uplifting"
Iphone starts playing gospel music
"No, something with a beat I can dance too".
Iphone starts playing "please don't stop the music" by Rheanna.
That day is coming soon, maybe not in the 2009 Iphone or even the 2010 Iphone, but by 2011 the Iphone will be running on a quad or even Octa core CPU and have 128 GB of flash hardrive space and 1 GB of RAM.
This will allow for a 10 GB OS that includes the kind of kick ass voice recognition and AI software that would be needed to totally Trek out the Iphone.
I have seen the future and the future is sweet!
Mambo!
Not really a Star Trek fan myself, but that scene got stuck in my head somehow. I believe the genious feature is a clear sign Appe is heading in that direction.
..."iPhone copy paragraph to a new email"
"iPhone call wife and superimpose traffic noises over the background to make it look like I'm stuck in a jam"
"iPhone, log in to that PC over there and see what they're doing"
...
"Michael, I'm detecting a roadblock up ahead..."
"iPhone call wife and superimpose traffic noises over the background to make it look like I'm stuck in a jam"
"iPhone, log in to that PC over there and see what they're doing"
...
"Michael, I'm detecting a roadblock up ahead..."
"...why Michael, if you had pressed the Turbo Boost button, Safari would have been much snappier"
actually as a sort of tangent subject to this... "If iPhones could talk..........."
google search
i just used the voice capability in google search yesterday. it worked perfectly.
the problem is... BAD voice recognition is a useless fad. GOOD voice recognition is a useful and vital aspect of future technology.
it won't be more distracting to request a song five times... because it'll be right the first time. eventually. all the cons people have now are because it doesn't work very well. it will. eventually.
i get the feeling that people who hate this idea actually hate BAD recognition... which most of us can support. that's certainly not a reason to not implement it, though... obviously.
i just used the voice capability in google search yesterday. it worked perfectly.
the problem is... BAD voice recognition is a useless fad. GOOD voice recognition is a useful and vital aspect of future technology.
it won't be more distracting to request a song five times... because it'll be right the first time. eventually. all the cons people have now are because it doesn't work very well. it will. eventually.
i get the feeling that people who hate this idea actually hate BAD recognition... which most of us can support. that's certainly not a reason to not implement it, though... obviously.
Consider:
Muskratboy hit the nail on the head.
Just because most voice recognition today sucks is irrelevant to our discussion.
Consider this: Apple is a neurotic perfectionist when it comes to the Iphone and its handme down cousin the Ipod Touch.
Nothing is ever allowed on these platforms until it works flawlessly.
When the Iphone came out it blew us away, yet lacked Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS and access to podcasts on the Itunes library.
Now it will have all those things and they work perfectly.
Yes Nokia might have had some of these things on their phones first but they did not work flawlessly with a super intuitive UI.
In Japan they are technocrazy and their top phones are some 5 years ahead of ours, or so they claim. Some top phones in the land of the rising sun have over 300 features, including video chat, tv, turn by turn GPS ect.
The catch: These phones are a Jack of all trades and a master of none.
In other words they do everything and suck at everything they do.
I have a Japanese friend who brought his super phone with him when he visited the states and told me that the UI is insanely complicated, the user manuel is the size of a small phone book and the TV reception is terrible. The camera makes the video chat useless and the turn by turn GPS can't get a signal with any building nearby.
He joked that the national pasttime is commuting on the subway and hitting random key combos on your phone to discover new features you didn't even know you had.
Here is an example, hit 1,2,3 simultaneously to watch TV. Hit 1,2 simultaneously, then wait 1 second, then 3, while still holding 1 and 2 and you get the Video chat feature.
To get GPS you hit 1,2 simultaneously, then let go and a second later hit 3.
Take comfort in the fact that, even if the Iphone dosn't have voice recognition in 2009, it will have it one day and when it does it will work flawlessly and intuitivley.
Muskratboy hit the nail on the head.
Just because most voice recognition today sucks is irrelevant to our discussion.
Consider this: Apple is a neurotic perfectionist when it comes to the Iphone and its handme down cousin the Ipod Touch.
Nothing is ever allowed on these platforms until it works flawlessly.
When the Iphone came out it blew us away, yet lacked Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS and access to podcasts on the Itunes library.
Now it will have all those things and they work perfectly.
Yes Nokia might have had some of these things on their phones first but they did not work flawlessly with a super intuitive UI.
In Japan they are technocrazy and their top phones are some 5 years ahead of ours, or so they claim. Some top phones in the land of the rising sun have over 300 features, including video chat, tv, turn by turn GPS ect.
The catch: These phones are a Jack of all trades and a master of none.
In other words they do everything and suck at everything they do.
I have a Japanese friend who brought his super phone with him when he visited the states and told me that the UI is insanely complicated, the user manuel is the size of a small phone book and the TV reception is terrible. The camera makes the video chat useless and the turn by turn GPS can't get a signal with any building nearby.
He joked that the national pasttime is commuting on the subway and hitting random key combos on your phone to discover new features you didn't even know you had.
Here is an example, hit 1,2,3 simultaneously to watch TV. Hit 1,2 simultaneously, then wait 1 second, then 3, while still holding 1 and 2 and you get the Video chat feature.
To get GPS you hit 1,2 simultaneously, then let go and a second later hit 3.
Take comfort in the fact that, even if the Iphone dosn't have voice recognition in 2009, it will have it one day and when it does it will work flawlessly and intuitivley.
I currently use my iPhone via my Ford Sync system to control the phone and iPod. The voice recognition and speech is actually very good. I'd say 19 out of 20 times it gets it right. It lacks the ability to learn though. Given a learning feature, the software would be amazing. It reads the song titles and artists back very well. It also recognizes what I want it to play or dial very well. If Apple can reach this level of usability in the phone, it will be very popular.
Good Point
66Replica makes a very good point. Learning software will take voice recognition to a whole new level.
No matter your accent it will learn your vocal patterns and, over time, become 99% accurate.
The only catch is that voice recogntion software with the quality of learning software that Apple would require will take up a lot of space.
That is why it may take several generations before we have a treked out/knight rider Iphone.
Only when our Iphones have 256 or 512 GB of memory can Apple afford to load 25 GB OS systems that include the voice recognition, dynamic learning and AI software required to make our Iphones do what we cry out for them to do.
66Replica makes a very good point. Learning software will take voice recognition to a whole new level.
No matter your accent it will learn your vocal patterns and, over time, become 99% accurate.
The only catch is that voice recogntion software with the quality of learning software that Apple would require will take up a lot of space.
That is why it may take several generations before we have a treked out/knight rider Iphone.
Only when our Iphones have 256 or 512 GB of memory can Apple afford to load 25 GB OS systems that include the voice recognition, dynamic learning and AI software required to make our Iphones do what we cry out for them to do.
Now, THAT'S funny
ROTFLOL funny. At any rate, on a recent ski trip it certainly occurred to me that I wanted to control my iphone verbally, since it was in my pocket to protect it from the elements. It seems simple enough to have a menu driven, voice-controlled interface. I too have always felt the iphone needs voice dialing. Throwing in voice control of springboard would be way bad! And, read me my email while I'm driving.
ROTFLOL funny. At any rate, on a recent ski trip it certainly occurred to me that I wanted to control my iphone verbally, since it was in my pocket to protect it from the elements. It seems simple enough to have a menu driven, voice-controlled interface. I too have always felt the iphone needs voice dialing. Throwing in voice control of springboard would be way bad! And, read me my email while I'm driving.
I can accept that voice recognition has its uses (such as in a car or for disabled people), but with the whole Star Trek thing, people miss a big point. Once the novelty of telling your computer what to do wears off, the fact is that it's much quicker and easier to press the down arrow 4 times than say "Computer, edit, cursor down, cursor down, cursor down, cursor down"
By that time, the comuter will be able to track your eyes and where they move. It'll automatically scroll down if you are looking far enough down the page.
To be perfectly honest, the iPhone would respond, "5173 of your earth years."
I love how Apple keeps raising the bar. When they do add voice dial, they add it in such a way that it is truely useful for an overall hands-free use. Furthermore it will likely recognize and function in all the languages the iPhone is marketed in, except hopefully, "Ghetto-speak."
Doesn't the Google mobile app have that voice recognition already? I know Google has a built in calculator into its search engine, but I'm sure it could be adjusted to include things like half-lives.
Is there some reason Apple hasn't upped the quality of the speech synthesizer since the 512K Mac or fat MAc days? I want it to talk to me like that girl that did the Palm Pre commercial.
On another matter: so the +320 pounder has 500 pound friends. Now I know why the poor iPhone broke with it got stepped on. They were probably trying to kick it to the curb so one of them could hold onto a parking meter while bending down to pick it up.
On another matter: so the +320 pounder has 500 pound friends. Now I know why the poor iPhone broke with it got stepped on. They were probably trying to kick it to the curb so one of them could hold onto a parking meter while bending down to pick it up.
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(Mind you, "Veronica's" voice in OSX 10.5 dosen't half turn me on. LOL.)
What american accent? You guys have a lot of accent: redneck, new yorkers, northern, southern and black. No wonder why voice recognition technology does suck in the U.S!voice recognition will only work if you got an american accent