Posted on 03/02/2018 7:57:12 AM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
I know I’m old fashioned, and subject to getting flamed, but, oh well - - -
Voice command? I have have had two of those new fangled cars where I can voice command the radio, heater and God knows what else. To me this is just dumb. If I’m too lazy to do these little push button/dial rotating tasks myself, it just does not need to be done.
Now in heavy traffic this may be more of a safety feature than a convenience one. But for the TV remote? Pushing a button, or just getting off my lazy rear to go manually change a channel really is not a bother.
There is probably a Raspberry Pi project to handle this...just google - Raspberry Pi voice controlled remote.
It would be pretty simple to create. IR remote codes are easily generated by a Pi and sent to an IR LED.
And someone just has to have created some voice recognition code.
Cox Contour does voice commands, it’s “universal” so I think it can hit the TV too. Never tried that because the volume buttons are faster than pushing the voice button and talking.
You’ll need to clear that with the wifey or significant other.
Amazon Fire TV along with Playstation Vue will do exactly what you want and more. For example, if you are watching a recorded program, you can say “fast forward 60 minutes” and it will do it.
I know some people that like them but, next up will be brain implants that feed video and audio directly so one can "watch" TV w/o actually having to use their eyes....
Samsung models with voice control capability are listed here on this page about how to interact with the voice control.
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Thanks.
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