voice recognition

September 24th 2007

ThePudding.com Phone Service Listens to Your Calls, Makes You Watch Ads

It sounds like a double-whammy of a bad idea: a free phone service that determines which ads to target to you by applying speech-recognition to all your conversations. To make things worse, the home page of ThePudding.com insults potential customers by saying it’s “a breakthrough technology that makes your phone calls interesting.” Hey, my phone…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 24

September 14th 2007

US West’s Flowers by Alice (1992)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 See also:Connections: AT&T’s Vision of the Future (1993)Writer and Producer of Connections: AT&T’s Vision of the FutureApple’s Knowledge Navigator (1987)Apple’s Grey Flannel Navigator (1988)Vision (Clip 1, 1993)Vision (Clip 2, 1993)Vision (Clip 3, 1993)

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 14

September 12th 2007

Flowers by Alice (Part 5, 1992)

And now, the thrilling conclusion to the 1992 US West concept video Flowers by Alice. See also:Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 2, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 3, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 4, 1992)

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 12

September 7th 2007

Flowers by Alice (Part 4, 1992)

According to part 4 of Flowers by Alice, in the future, all brides are ditzy Valley Girls with neck spasms. Be sure to check out part 6 of the concept video Connections for AT&T’s version of wedding planning in the future. See also:Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 2, 1992)Flowers by Alice…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 7

August 30th 2007

Flowers by Alice (Part 3, 1992)

Part 3 of the US West concept video Flowers by Alice shows the amazing graphics capabilities of their portable, talking computer. Those flower pots are priceless. I’m pretty sure Mario and Luigi can be spotted if you squint hard enough. See also:Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 2, 1992)

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 30

August 24th 2007

Flowers by Alice (Part 2, 1992)

Part 2 of the US West concept video Flowers by Alice features the business tools of the future. Voice recognition technology seemed to be very popular in concept videos of this era. See also:Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 24

August 22nd 2007

UPDATED: iPhone Speech Recognition Demo from VoiceSignal

Click to viewWe’ve heard of VoiceSignal speech recognition for lots of other phones, but now VoiceSignal sent us a video that allegedly shows it working for the first time on the iPhone. According to the guy in the clip, a couple of VoiceSignal engineers designed this app, but all we see it doing so far…

Tech News Charlie White Aug 22

August 20th 2007

Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)

The 1992 US West concept video Flowers by Alice features themes and products similar to that of Accenture’s Vision and AT&T’s Connections, both produced in 1993. This clip from Flowers by Alice introduces us to the main characters as well as two emerging technologies. The skyway’s backed up but the bullet train is moving right…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 20

June 22nd 2007

Tinkering with Voice-Controlled Helicopters

Those crazy Brits are flying voice-controlled helicopters now, using a Direct Voice Input system by QinetiQ that lets pilots fly their Gazelle helicopters by simply yelling at them. So far the makers claim 90% “effective speech control” of the helicopter’s “non-safety critical avionic functions,” but we’re just wondering what avionic functions on a helicopter aren’t…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 22

July 31st 2006

Windows Vista Voice Recognition Crashes and Burns

What happens when a Microsoft employee demos the speech recognition in Windows Vista before it’s ready? Check it out for yourselves. It’s not a pretty sight. Our buddies at Jalopnik pointed us to the flakey Windows Vista voice recognition demo shown at a recent event. We tried to record it off of CNBC but our…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 31

ThePudding.com Phone Service Listens to Your Calls, Makes You Watch Ads

US West’s Flowers by Alice (1992)

Flowers by Alice (Part 5, 1992)

Flowers by Alice (Part 4, 1992)

Flowers by Alice (Part 3, 1992)

Flowers by Alice (Part 2, 1992)

UPDATED: iPhone Speech Recognition Demo from VoiceSignal

Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)

Tinkering with Voice-Controlled Helicopters

Windows Vista Voice Recognition Crashes and Burns

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