After trying to train my primary customer (spouse) on the Squeezebox with various interfaces (Presets on Radio, SB Controller, Ipeng) I keep coming back to what I think would be a killer usability feature: Voice Command for the Squeezebox platform.
I saw an old thread that someone had played around with this at one point (2008) but haven't seen much about it recently. Anyone else think that this would be a worthwhile feature? I believe the new Iphones have something similar... we've all used voice command to make phone calls on various platforms... Microsoft has the Sync software in Ford vehicles. Voice Command works without training lately, so it's something that could really be something easy for users. It doesn't even have to be too complicated - I'm looking for commands like: "Playlist Shane Favorites Random", "Skip Track", "Mute All", "Sync All Players", "Play Artist Pink Floyd", "Play Album Dark Side of the Moon", etc. For some simple and common commands, Voice Command would be much faster than navigating menus, no matter how well presented those menus are. In some threads like this, there's always someone that comes up with examples of how a certain keyword in a song would cause undesired behavior "What if they say 'stop' in the song??" but on any of these systems there is usually a button press or something similar that can easily distinguish a command from normal background noise or music. I think Voice Command continues to get better and better - someday I would love to see some way to run Squeezebox this way... Thoughts? -- spedinfargo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ spedinfargo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79734 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
