Today my friend showed me his new phone. By doing this, he gave me another example of developing communication technologies. We touched upon this certain technology in class but only with the notion that it hasn't really taken off yet. We might be wrong soon...
...because...
...my friend's phone has voice-recognition abilities. He can speak to the phone: "call Stephanie," and it will proceed to call me without my friend ever having to touch a button.
Maybe a lot of phones can do this but I've never seen it before, so I thought this would be an interesting occurrence to point out.
Maybe this is one step closer to Kurzweil's prediction that much of future communication will be human-to-machine (not quite there yet, since telling the phone to call me is just a step before actually talking to me, a non-machine)
* A special thanks to Dan for making this post possible
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1 comment:
That's a really interesting feature to have on a phone. I know that a few years ago there was a development for computers that you could just speak and the computer would type what you spoke. From people who tried to use the feature, i heard it was inefficient and that you had to speak very slowly and distinctly. I don't think the technology ever caught on. I wonder if this feature for phones is the same and if it will catch on. It seems that if this development has taken place, the other predicted developments have the same chance of being developed for the public.
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