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What are your thoughts on voice control for smartphones?

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I'd like to put aside Siri vs Google voice and just get people's thoughts on the idea of voice control for smartphones and tech.

Is this a fad, niche product, or truly the future of technology and communication?
 
It's a fad. While it's nice to have sometimes, I still manually text or search on my own almost all of the time. If it's that important where you can't text, you can simply call someone.

And just my personal opinion, but you look like a total douche when you have a conversation with your phone/Siri.
 
Never gonna use any kind of voice thingy. I have a speech impediment, so it's harder to get the whole thing working.
 
I can certainly speak faster than I can type and I have been typing for 25 years and was trained in typing. Voice entry is still very early in its development. In the future, voice recognition will eventually be very common. At this time, it does provide some better functionality over typing, but will not be the primary input method for at least a few years.
 
I think its ok, but why does it keep updating on my android, i hve to go to the market and uncheck auto install then remove it.

I am sure i will use it some day but just dont like it auto updating on my phone.
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I would guess that many of the media pundits who are currently being dismissive or scornful of smartphone voice interaction are the same ones who got lots of page views talking trash about the iPhone and the iPad ...
 
Pitamakan said:
I would guess that many of the media pundits who are currently being dismissive or scornful of smartphone voice interaction are the same ones who got lots of page views talking trash about the iPhone and the iPad ...
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Heh-heh, different strokes - different folks
 
It's way way too early to make a call on whether it's a fad or not. The current group, especially siri are nothing more than cute toys that will generate the data needed for improvement. In other words, a giant beta test! Voice recognition, especially recognizing the individual have a long way to go before it can be considered useful. When you're able to speak with your device conversationally in a noisy environment and have it understand you completely without need of further feedback, then we'll be in the useful stage. I think that day will come and I think by then Apple will claim they invented voice control, amass a slew of questionable patents and suit the crap out of anyone who tries to use technology that pre dates Apples use of the same.......
 
Would not use it.
What will happen, even if people are not conversing or texting on the phone, they will be speaking commands, and as with some, not caring where they are or who might be listening. (ex. movie theaters.)
And if you have to enunciate clearly to get the phone to understand - the commands will probably be louder than normal voice conversation.
 
pastafarian said:
It's way way too early to make a call on whether it's a fad or not. The current group, especially siri are nothing more than cute toys that will generate the data needed for improvement. In other words, a giant beta test! Voice recognition, especially recognizing the individual have a long way to go before it can be considered useful. When you're able to speak with your device conversationally in a noisy environment and have it understand you completely without need of further feedback, then we'll be in the useful stage. I think that day will come and I think by then Apple will claim they invented voice control, amass a slew of questionable patents and suit the crap out of anyone who tries to use technology that pre dates Apples use of the same.......
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Amen! I Second that emotion!

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zuben el genub said:
Would not use it.
What will happen, even if people are not conversing or texting on the phone, they will be speaking commands, and as with some, not caring where they are or who might be listening. (ex. movie theaters.)
And if you have to enunciate clearly to get the phone to understand - the commands will probably be louder than normal voice conversation.
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The latest update from the market was auto installed and starts up. I would stop it. Were listening to mp3s, and the microphone icon kept popping up with a list of commands it was trying to do. A couple times it activated my dial pad when I was just taking in the room and my phone was sitting on tje desk near me.

I had to close it over and over then uninstallled the later version and it stopped starting up by itself.
 
if you use siri and you are waiting for the metro and you wanna text someone everybody can hear what you are texting
kinda phone call
people will think: look at him hes talking to his phone, must be a virgin or something :L
 
Pitamakan said:
This is an interesting article ... and I think it describes exactly what Apple is up to, here. I also think Google knows it, and is worried:

Look out Google: Siri is Poised to Take Apple into Search
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Good article! Looks like another tug-of-war is on the horizon. Whatever Google is working on, I wonder if it got exposed in this att case fiasco? And hopefully att didnt leak any google trades or r&d to apple.. Or the other way around.
 
I see it as those old PTT Nextel phones. Where you would hear that loud chirp and the obnoxious a-hole that had it would practically yell into the phone.
 
Pitamakan said:
This is an interesting article ... and I think it describes exactly what Apple is up to, here. I also think Google knows it, and is worried:

Look out Google: Siri is Poised to Take Apple into Search
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I do hope this spurs Google on to create something better or at least as good. I would love to even type in a question in Google Search like, "How do I turn off the spell checker on my phone?" and then have the instructions displayed. Right now, Google finds web pages and you have to sift through them to determine if it is what you want. Some of those pages are just people posing the same question I have which is pretty much useless for me in this case.
 
mikedt said:
When voice interaction with our tech is perfect, it would probably consider it.
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Nothing in the tech world is ever absolutely perfect. This is like saying that you'd never use any app that ever had a possibility of crashing ... and there aren't any of those out there.
 
For those of us with physical disabilities, using voice is better if you can't type or if your like me you use it when your driving your wheelchair around the shopping mall so you don't ram someone from behind on the ankles.
 
julianne791 said:
For those of us with physical disabilities, using voice is better if you can't type or if your like me you use it when your driving your wheelchair around the shopping mall so you don't ram someone from behind on the ankles.
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Now THAT, julianne791, is an excellent thought and good example of putting voice command devices to great practical use! Here Here!

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