Software to Make Your Media Center ‘Listen’
February 28th, 2006 | Published in Business, Entertainment, News, Technology
CNET News.com
No one to talk to when you get home from work? One Voice Technologies has a technological solution.
Its One Voice software add-on for Windows XP Media Center is designed to allow users to control their TV, stereo and computer via verbal commands. The One Voice slogan is “Just say it to play it,” the purpose of the product is ease of use and the underlying technology is voice recognition.
“If you have 900 music albums you have to see the screen, scroll through menus and selections or type in the artist’s name to find what you want. With the voice control you can simply say ‘Play John Mayer’ and it scans through your collection, makes a match and plays it,” said Adam Fitch, sales and marketing manager for One Voice.
To avoid your stereo tossing between Rolling Stones and Beatles while you argue about which band is the greatest, there is a key word that triggers the system into action. The default key word is “One Voice” but users may choose any name or word they like.
The One Voice program, priced at $149.95, also can be applied to slide-show presentations on your PC, TV-show recordings (“Record channel 7 at 6 p.m.”), voice over Internet Protocol phone calls (“Call Mom”), and the composing, sending and reading of e-mails and text messages.
