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  1. #1
    MasterBlaster
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    "ironside65" wrote

    > is anyone aware of any cell phones in the market that offers true
    > hands-free voice-activated usage? I'm not talking the type where you
    > have to reach up to the earpiece to toggle the voice functions (i.e.
    > Bluetooth, etc.) or snap something on the cable. I'm looking for one
    > that constantly monitors your voice for a trigger word or some such
    > idea.


    You watch too many Star Trek shows.
    I'd hate to be the one constantly apologizing to people for calling them by accident.
    - You know, Frankie, I'm getting tired of that neighbor's dog barking so much.
    -- Maybe you could tell the neighbor that someone threatened to "call the police".
    (ring, ring)... 9-1-1, what's your emergency?





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  2. #2
    Steve Sobol
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    Re: Truly hands-free voice-activated cell phones

    On 2007-05-31, MasterBlaster <Nobody'[email protected]> wrote:

    > You watch too many Star Trek shows.
    > I'd hate to be the one constantly apologizing to people for calling them by accident.
    > - You know, Frankie, I'm getting tired of that neighbor's dog barking so much.
    > -- Maybe you could tell the neighbor that someone threatened to "call the police".
    > (ring, ring)... 9-1-1, what's your emergency?


    That's silly.

    My VoiceSignal-equipped phones (a Sprint Samsung SPHA660, a Sprint Samsung
    SPHA620 and my current T-Mobile Motorola U6 PEBL) only respond to a handful
    of commands: Name dial (dial out of the phonebook), Digit dial (dial by saying
    the digits of the phone number), and a few others. At least with the VS
    software, I don't see your scenario happening very often, if at all.

    But with VS, I have to open the flip or press a button on the phone or
    headset (depending on which phone it is and how I have it configured).
    I'd like to... not have to do that.




  3. #3
    ironside65
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    Truly hands-free voice-activated cell phones

    is anyone aware of any cell phones in the market that offers true
    hands-free voice-activated usage? I'm not talking the type where you
    have to reach up to the earpiece to toggle the voice functions (i.e.
    Bluetooth, etc.) or snap something on the cable. I'm looking for one
    that constantly monitors your voice for a trigger word or some such
    idea.

    Thanks,




  4. #4
    Todd Allcock
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    Re: Truly hands-free voice-activated cell phones

    At 31 May 2007 19:02:16 -0700 ironside65 wrote:
    > is anyone aware of any cell phones in the market that offers true
    > hands-free voice-activated usage? I'm not talking the type where you
    > have to reach up to the earpiece to toggle the voice functions (i.e.
    > Bluetooth, etc.) or snap something on the cable. I'm looking for one
    > that constantly monitors your voice for a trigger word or some such
    > idea.


    My guess is that idea is just too processor intensive at this time.
    Right now the phones can "stop what they're doing" and devote any
    necessary resources into parsing your speech when a button is pressed.
    Constantly processing every sound they pick up waiting for a trigger
    phrase would likely bring all other functions to a crawl, and perhaps
    beheck on the battery life.

    It might be a neat idea for a special interest product, though; i.e. a
    model with few other features designed for, perhaps, the disabled.





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