Voice Control
In preparing for our presentation I decided to look at another method of interacting with our technologies which is a more natural and organic experience, Voice Control.
Mobile Phones, Mercedes Cars and even our Homes can all be controlled simply by issuing voice commands.
Mobile phones have for a while offered voice activated dialing, whereby we simply issue a command containing the phonebook entry name of the person we wish to call and the phone dials the stored number.
Mercedes Benz offers a feature called Linguatronic which at the flick of a switch allows the driver [or passengers] to have access to a series of other features. The built-in mobile phone system, audio components and GPS navigation systems can all be accessed and operated through voice control.
In our homes, more and more technologies are being designed to incorporate voice activated controls.
One such example is Microsofts Media Center 2005 which can be operated by using an additional software package called Media Center Communicator. This allows a user to operate all of the functionality of a Media Center PC in their lounge through voice commands alone. TV, DVD, Pictures, Audio and Email can all be accessed vocally.
These technologies already seem fairly primitive when compared to the various proposals that are offered to us for the uses of voice control in our homes. The main difficulty seems to become apparent when more complex tasks are attempted. Controlling devices in the same room as the user can be done through a series of microphones, or a user-worn bluetooth headset, yet controlling devices in other rooms - or even from remote locations proves to be far more complicated.
The proposed solution to this is Spoken Dialogue Technology, as discussed here by David Milward of Linguamatics. This development in voice control incorporates a form of feedback from the controlling system.
Users undergo a dialogue with the system in order to ascertain more of the specifics about what devices are to be used and how. This means that the user could theoretically call the system from an external location [using their voice activated phone!] and instruct the system to turn on the heating or air conditioning in the house.
Mobile Phones, Mercedes Cars and even our Homes can all be controlled simply by issuing voice commands.
Mobile phones have for a while offered voice activated dialing, whereby we simply issue a command containing the phonebook entry name of the person we wish to call and the phone dials the stored number.
Mercedes Benz offers a feature called Linguatronic which at the flick of a switch allows the driver [or passengers] to have access to a series of other features. The built-in mobile phone system, audio components and GPS navigation systems can all be accessed and operated through voice control.
In our homes, more and more technologies are being designed to incorporate voice activated controls.
One such example is Microsofts Media Center 2005 which can be operated by using an additional software package called Media Center Communicator. This allows a user to operate all of the functionality of a Media Center PC in their lounge through voice commands alone. TV, DVD, Pictures, Audio and Email can all be accessed vocally.
These technologies already seem fairly primitive when compared to the various proposals that are offered to us for the uses of voice control in our homes. The main difficulty seems to become apparent when more complex tasks are attempted. Controlling devices in the same room as the user can be done through a series of microphones, or a user-worn bluetooth headset, yet controlling devices in other rooms - or even from remote locations proves to be far more complicated.
The proposed solution to this is Spoken Dialogue Technology, as discussed here by David Milward of Linguamatics. This development in voice control incorporates a form of feedback from the controlling system.
Users undergo a dialogue with the system in order to ascertain more of the specifics about what devices are to be used and how. This means that the user could theoretically call the system from an external location [using their voice activated phone!] and instruct the system to turn on the heating or air conditioning in the house.
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