Voice Activated MP3 player 236
g0dsp33d writes "A US company is working on a voice controlled MP3 player for applications like cars where touch control is not as feasible. Considering technology like radar breaking and AI steering for robots, it reminds me of the possibility for a real life version of the car from Night Rider, KITT. Minus the cool jump effects, of course."
My two cents... (Score:3, Informative)
It seems to me that if the system was not perfect, IE it has common errors and played the wrong songs, that would make me more annoyed than the prospect of having to reach down to change something.
I guess you can call me crazy, but I still like adjusting dials and getting some feedback when I change the volume or change tracks, and i'm not sure I would like a voice activated system.
voice control is hard why? (Score:3, Informative)
My guess is that the player isn't going to sort your music for you, you will need to put it in the genre you want.
Unless it's something really mind blowing, like it tells me what i want to hear next, and is actually correct, i am unimpressed.
Important site for carputers (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.mp3car.com [mp3car.com]
A lot of us hobbyists have done a lot of research and put a lot of computers in cars, with fabrication, touchscreens, DC-DC power supplies, and more.
Re:touch control isn't feasible? (Score:2, Informative)
It's all about the filters (Score:2, Informative)
A major problem with voice recognition technology is when the technology cannot differentiate the speaker from the background noise. Not knowing what is reliable and what is noise, the system can be more prone to error. In this case, however, the system would know what it is outputting and to my thinking should be able to ignore any signal currently being output. Any incoming audio signal would be compared against the outgoing signal and if it matched it could simply be ignored. This should make it possible to eliminate noise coming from various sources, perhaps even something to detect noise outside the car and filter it out as well.
This is just my thinking.
Ummm.. this already exists in cars (Score:4, Informative)
It's activated by a steering wheel stalk and is somewhat modal (but an MP3 player wouldn't have as many modes in the first place), but the hard part is all done by voice recognition.
I'm pretty sure other car manufacturers are shipping similar systems by now.