VoiceMe

Juniper Foo | Aug 30, 2004

One more reason not to leave your couch. Taiwan company HOTECH's VoiceMe lets you, literally, tell your telly, VRC, air-conditioner and just about any electronic device to turn on or off--giving your poor thumb a much-needed rest. VoiceMe can learn basically any infrared signal to work on anything you can operate with a remote control (except, unfortunately, on bratty kids). The catch: The manual states that it takes several steps to "train" VoiceMe before you can fully use it. And as voice recognition is not an exact science, we're expecting some capricious response to commands. Still, the potential for voice recognition as an interface is limitless. Credit cards that only work when they hear their owner's voice? Coming up next.

Price: S$159.90 (US$92.42)
Availability: Now
Device: Remote voice controller
Basic specs: 9V battery, 1m IR range, 5m ultimate speech input distance, 147 x 30mm, 130g

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