5 Recent Voice Controlled Gadgets That Are Totally Cool!
August 15 2009 Categorized Under: Cell Phones, Uncategorized, Wireless Tags; alarm clock, apple, apple iphone, apple iphone 3gs, blueant, bluegenie, bluetooth headset, car accessories, gamin nuvi gps, garmin, garmin gps, gps, iphone, iphone 3gs, iphone accessories, italk clock, japan, mobile phone accessories, model radio helicopter, neutrano, nuvi, nuvi 880, taiyo, toy helicopter, v1 voice control, voice command, voice control, voice controlled clock, voice controlled gps, voice controlled helicopter, voice controlled toy, voice user interface, voice-heli 2 Commented
Voice control is not what it used to be at one point. Back in the days when it was first introduced as part of mobile phones and other gadgets, it was still in its nascent stages. At that point, it was nothing more than a gimmick. This I can say from first-hand experience with older Nokia phones. The accuracy was nowhere near usable and well, it was not something you would want to rely upon.
But in the last one or two years, we have a seen surge of devices that are either partially or fully controlled by voice. Some of these devices are quite recent and represent the cutting edge when it comes to implementing voice control. Of course, interactive voice activated telephone services have existed for quite some time now but there’s a difference here. In those systems you can employ large amounts of processing and storage power to make sure that the accuracy is optimum.
But when it comes to smaller gadgets that are mostly portable and handheld it is a different ball game altogether. As developers already know, it is extremely hard to cram so much in to one small device. Still, newer devices with sophisticated voice control are coming out and these are mostly speaker independent. That means the user can be anyone and the device will still respond.
As I was thinking about all this, I decided to see for myself what all gadgets have come out recently that use voice control. Read on for 5 cool gadgets that can be operated by voice.
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