Voice control over your Xbox 360 in the future? One Voice says YES!

[Tha Xecutioner]

[quote name=' Dean Weber of One Voice and TeamXbox'] “Imagine walking into your entertainment room and simply saying, for example; Xbox Play U2 or Xbox Play American Idol, and your Xbox immediately starts playing that content,” said Dean Weber, president and CEO at One Voice Technologies. One Voice Technologies announced today Media Center Communicator v3 for Windows Vista, which will allow users to control up to five Xbox 360 video game systems by simply speaking to play music, videos, watch recorded TV or play photo slideshows.[/quote]

Features include:

• Simple to use voice commands with no voice training required
• High accuracy with wide range of accents
• Voice commands for Xbox 360
• Play MP3 or Apple iTunes music using voice commands
• PC-to-Phone calling using Skype to anywhere worldwide
• Home automation for setting thermostats, lighting, security cameras and much more
• Read and send email
• View photos and photo slideshows
• Create your own custom voice macros to launch websites and applications
• Works with Media Center DVD players (Sony and Niveus)
• USB microphone included

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This sounds like a pretty awesome feature, but pricing and availabilty have not been released yet. If it is a fair price, do any CAGs plan on giving this a try?

 

[Scorch]

Not at all. How lazy can you get? The controller would be much easier. You'll have to program your voice, more often than not repeat what you said, it'll misread your voice and play the wrong things, etcetcetc.