Google Voice Controls Giant LED Display

compumike writes "What geek among us has never thought about how cool it would be if you could call your computer and have it do stuff? Josh Davis put together a quick video demo and source code of his Voice Controlled LED Marquee, powered by Google Voice speech recognition and a DIY LED Array Kit. Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"

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Google's speech recognition is uncannily good

[rolfwind]

Of course, they have been using Goog-411 to improve it, and Google Voice will only accelerate that (on the plus side, I don't need a landline at all anymore with cheap international calls).... but Google's voice search on the iphone is much better than I could ask of it.

If they came out with a voice recognition product, the field currently dominated by the mediocre Dragon Naturally Speaking, I'm sure they could completely kill the competition.

Google voice speech recognition needs a little wor

[Vyse of Arcadia]

Google Voice speech recognition isn't exactly the best. "Hey, Zack, this is Terrence at [company name here]. Please give me a call as soon as you get the chance to. We need to, uh, we wanted to know if you were going to make it in to day. Thank you." somehow becomes "Hey there, This is Sarah positions. Please give me a call as as soon as you get a chance to. We need to we. What's up for you not be able to make it today. Thank you."

And he speaks pretty clearly too.

Naughty talk

[Mishotaki]

So... you can ask your computer for porn?

Whoa dude

[Zouden]

"Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"

I'm trying to imagine it, man, but it's BLOWING MY FREAKIN' MIND.

Wait, I thought this article was about using voice control with the display, not the display itself (which is ancient).

Re:Google voice speech recognition needs a little

[bennomatic]

Sarah Positions? She sounds hot.