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[Matrixdudej]

Well, my post i madee like 5 minutes ago was about making a tv remote pager and how you could find the remote easy and then i thought of this, on cell phones and stuff we can say a name and it will call that person after you record their name on your cell phone.

So another thing is you can do some voice activated commands on certain computers like say open internet and it will yurn on the internet so i think everyone can tell where im going with this by the topic title.

Well my idea is making a voice activated tv meaning you can say turn on and it will turn on, say channel 19 and it will turn to channel 19 you wont have to worry about ever loosing a remote controll like in my last post because it is all voice activated and you can just say what you want it to do.It would eliminate stress of looking for remote or having to change it manually it would make things alot easier.

So what do you people think of this? also look at my tv remote control pager idea and say what you think of this however this could make the other idea of mine useless

[salamangkero]

Matrixdudej, on Mar 6 2007, 09:25 AM, said:

Well my idea is making a voice activated TV meaning you can say turn on and it will turn on, say channel 19 and it will turn to channel 19 you wont have to worry about ever loosing a remote control like in my last post because it is all voice activated and you can just say what you want it to do.It would eliminate stress of looking for remote or having to change it manually it would make things a lot easier.

Oh if it were only that simple.

First off, how would mute people use it? What about those who suffer voice-changing illnesses like the common cold or tonsilitis?

Also, there's this thing about accents, dialects and languages. I might say, "TV On," while some other guy might say, "Tvee Auhn." One might say, "Six," some guy might say, "Seiz," others might say, "Roku" and I might say, "Anim."

At the moment, there's also a big deal about background noises. I'm sure you all know that an, "Ah," spoken in a silent household sounds different from an, "Ah," accompanied by a choir also saying "Ah".

Oh yeah, I've read of a similar problem in an Archie comic strip. He was looking for a lost cordless phone so Jughead came up with the solution: attach a cord to it

Personally, though, I don't see the big deal. I mean, if slobs worked on their sloppy habits, maybe they'd find it easier to look for the remote control. While far from being an obsessive-compulsive neat-freak, I suppose it does make me proud (yeah right ) that we never lose the remote control at home

[FLaKes]

I always had an idea for like a pager to find the missing remote. Kind of like the wireless phone in my house. If you dont know where it is, you just push the page button and the phone beeps until you find it and stop it. I guess the background noise for the tv could be fixed by saying a command to activate the voice commands, and then you would say the channel or anything you want, it would fix the tv recieving commands from background noises, lol, now that I think about it, imagine the tv being commanded by itself, its own speakers... Lol. I guess this would work as good as a remote, besides the remote is a whole lot cheaper than a voice activated system.

[FolkRockFan]

How lazy can we get? What - we can't be bothered to get up and look for the remote anymore? Buy a little hanging bag to drape over the arm of the couch and always stick the remote control in there: it won't be too far away for lazy people to reach and it won't be lost anymore either.

The last thing that a TV addict/couch potato in general needs is another excuse to lie on the couch for several hours at a time.

[kawasu]

i don't see how this would work in many ways, mostly stated by other people above. this is a tv here.. people yell and scream at tvs, well i do anyway. what if i was talking and accidentally said channel 7; it would switch channels without me wanting it to. a beeper button on the tv unit which sent a signal to the remote to make a sound would solve the problem of a lost remote already. even at that, it's easy to rectify this problem without such idiotic mumbo jumbo. all you need is a remote box or stacker where you put all your remotes, when you're done with one put it back. thats what we do at our joint, not once have we lost a remote. i think you are taking this idea too far. it's really unnecessary and quite lazy too. if you lose your remote, it will be around somewhere, look for it lol. its not that hard to change channels, just whack a few buttons and presto! i give you credit for trying to be innovative though. ;]

[TripleH13]

It would be very tricky to do. It is a very cool idea and maybe eventually some company will try to do it as a test. It is not something that is needed but It could be a nice extra feature for a older person who doesn't like getting up all the time or something like that.

[Matrixdudej]

Ok as for different accents or muted people there will always be the normal tv for muted people and program it yourself maybe? just like turn on manually and record your voice or something? also as for the lazy thing this doesnt mean your lazy its your choice to be lazy but lets say your tired and just wanna sit down and watch tv? sure thre still are lazy people but they will be lazy with or without this feature and yes this is not needed but then again paperclips arent "needed" just a little bit more helpful

[-[Nero]-]

lol...if they actually made a voice activated tv...it'd be every hardcore couch potato's dream come true. >< they never have to look for the remote, they dont have to get up to change the channel when the remote spoils, they can just sit there..

dream come true indeed...xD might indirectly increase the rates of obesity

[adriantc]

Well when you are as lazy as I am that is always a good idea. A few years ago my grandmother still had a black and white tv with no remote control and when I used to go and visit her in the summer holiday it was driving me crazy that i couldn't change the channel or the volume right from the comfort of your bed.
Now voice remote is a good idea, but I'm sure already thought about this and found it imposible to implement. I don't mean the software or the hardware part, but in a loud room you won't be able to turn on the tv. Not to mention the fact that you usually sit pretty far from the tv and you will have to shout. Voice control has been implemented in the mobile phones, but it didn't enjoy a wide use because it just doesn't work as hoped....

[csp4.0]

Clapping won't do any good, because when there's fireworks, the thing would go crazy. But voice activated will be pretty expensive. Because it'll have to analyze the voice patterns in a few hundred milliseconds. Which would take alot of procssing power, and alot of Prior knowledge the voice patterns