Monday, March 28, 2005 3:10 PM
szurgot
Technology wish list - Voice Recognition in appropriate places (Like voice mail systems)
Ok, here's my technology wish for the day...
My phone has bluetooth, for which I use a Jabra earpiece. It also has (limited) voice recognition so I can call pre-programmed people just by touching the earpiece, and speaking the name. So far so good, I can contact anybody, answer the phone, and hang up the phone, or record voice memos without touching the phone. But for some reason, I can't do voice recognition on my voice mail system. (SunCom/Cingular, whatever they are...)
It seems like it would be a lot of bang for the buck to implement voice recognition on a Voice Mail system. Only about 5-10 commands. For fancier stuff (like play last 3 seconds), you'd need a keypad, but "PLAY", "DELETE", "REPEAT", "NEXT", "FIRST", "PREVIOUS", "SAVE" would be pretty easy to implement. Or even just the numbers you would normally hit.
Ah well, maybe when the cars can drive themselves, and don't really need hands free anyway.