Control the TV with Voice

In 2002, the hero of the film Minority Report for Steven Spielberg ‘s flying control screens with force movements of the fingers and hands, thus eliminating keyboards, mice and remotes. In recent days, the reality has come – in part – science fiction. The game console Xbox 360 from Microsoft now allows control of the TV with voice and arm movements with updating the sensor Kinect. Up or down the sound, changing channels, controlling a film in video on demand and so on., all actions that can be done without having need for the old zapper.

With the acquisition in March 2009 the Israeli company 3DV Systems and its concept of ZCam, which is the basis for Kinect, the company of Bill Gates wanted to offer new features to the game console. Successfully because the sensor has sold over 10million copies worldwide. With this installed base, Microsoft can now escape the boundaries of the game ‘s attack on television. Such agreements have been signed with M6, Allociné or Dailymotion, making it compatible with the voice command such operators from the home screen of the Xbox.

Speech recognition and gesture has become the land of issues important to technology players. Apple set the example of innovation with its new application called “Siri” iPhone. The company wants the apple to go further and closer to Kinect for its future Apple TV, which could include facial recognition from viewers. According to Apple TV should be able to detect in front of the screen and customize menus and programs based on the user, the user can navigate through voice and gesture. HAL, the computer endowed with artificial intelligence unusual in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey , is not far …

In this area of research is in full swing. In France, Sensor, a young French start-up, develops and installs business of “interactive digital mirrors” that work with computers and Kinect integrated. The principle of the mirror is close to the interactive experience on Xbox: simply “order” in the mirror moves through increasingly developed to navigate the menus.

MAGIC WAND?

LG is more pragmatic and offers at the beginning of the year, a new version of its remote Magic Motion , full of novelties. The latter, with a gyro sensor and an accelerometer – as in the Nintendo Wiimote , iPhone or remote control of the Freebox Revolution – also includes a microphone connected to a voice recognition system.

Taking the remote as a microphone on stage, it is easy to access menus, volume settings, change channels, but also find videos on the Web. Also equipped with a wheel, this remote art can navigate on screen menus “scrolling” (down) like a mouse. The motion detector can, in turn, to point a cursor on the TV or draw orders in space. With only ten buttons and a special key to move from 2D to 3D, nothing is forgotten in this “magic wand” connected TV special.

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