For a company that gets so much (deserved) guff for endless, boring product iterations, ASUS also manages to sneak in a good amount of crazy functionality -- some of it more gimmicky than others. ASUS has been doing multitouch trackpads since before they were hip, is toying with
dual touchscreens and is even crazy enough to build the
Fold / Unfold computer. Next up for the firm is voice control, with a whole team dedicated to voice recognition, and plans to ship Eee PC and Eee Top products by Q3 or Q4 of this year. According to ASUS CEO Jerry Shen they're working with third parties in this effort, so we're guessing they're not going to reinvent the voice recognition wheel. Still, it's a promising development for a line of computers that seem to suffer most when it comes to input methods -- we'll wait and see how well they pull it off.
posted Mar 23rd 2009 10:21PM
This might be great for those that are vision impaired , or handicap, but other than that i dont see your average user needing this feature
i know what this is. this is an excuse for more EEE PC's. i see what your doing there ASUS. you fail.
/end rant
i just want the T101
AHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
Yet again all these losers are eating up Apple iPod slop...
Apple makes a talking MP3 player and all of a sudden companies announce talking products...
hmm.... season... apple... season? apple.... season...
no.... your right its DEFINATLY apple.....
(dumbshit)
AHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!
Rank me down and Mock me!
Tomorrow you will ALL be SORRY you did!
I will not tell you the BIG SECRET!
FAK U!
iGoon, you forgot the R in your penultimate word.
Voice control? Sweet! Now I don't even have to keep a hand free for the keyboard.
touche!
Voice control was available on EeePcs since the original 701. Worked quite well in the original linux distro, I assume they are extending the feature set from just opening programs or shutting down.
Engadget shouldn't you have known the voice activation features EeePcs have had all along ?
Michael....My sensors are picking up adult material, and your heart rate is increasing! KITT, just relax buddy, can you sense my chest hair bulging out from my shirt? Michael, I'm telling Bonnie.
Windows has had great voice recognition built in since Vista as well, just nobody cares enough to use it. This isn't going to be anything different.
The 701 already has that crude voice control program. Amusing for about 3 minutes.
Let's hope for guys with wives or gf's or kids that it's capable to differentiate between "shut up" and "shut off".
I can only assume that Wwhat does not have a gf. I tell the dog to shut up not my wife.
I can only assume you are a very calm and sweet person, which isn't a bad thing.
(Or are very young and hoping around and don't have that much experience with women over a longer period of time perhaps),
As a fix you can fill in 'sister' if you like, to make the joke work, imagine being in the car with a computer on a family trip.