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Google Develops Context-Aware Voice Search For TV
jfruh writes "Google TV, despite bold predictions from the company's execs, has singularly failed to take over the TV world. Nevertheless, the company is still plugging away, and one development that might have far-reaching implications is its new context-aware voice search. 'Context aware' is the key to revolutionizing the TV-watching experience: you can say the name of a TV show, the name of a channel, the description of a show, or the description of a kind of video you'd like to find on YouTube, and the TV will show it to you."
Like... I had cable, and I dumped it in favor of higher bandwidth for WoW, but right now I want to watch something that will make me forget the fact that my existence is defined by my patterns of consumption which Google knows intimately and can therefore extrapolate from their database that which will fulfill my dream state for the evening?
Like that kind of context?
No, like context extracted in this manner:
technologizer.com/2010/08/22/worst-google-voice-transcription-errors/
I like how on Slashdot, the 'evil' thing to do is using info to show you ads that might actual be relevant.
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...if I tell someone I'm getting up to take a crap, it'll switch to Fox News?
Sadly, until the major networks stop blocking GoogleTV access to their broadcasts/content who cares if Google TV can contextually search shows.
"'Context aware' is the key to revolutionizing the TV-watching experience: you can say the name of a TV show, the name of a channel, the description of a show, or the description of a kind of video you'd like to find on YouTube, and the TV will tell you it's not available in your country or requires upgrading to a package of subscription."
Fixed it.
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BOOBIES
..and I am thinking of the requests she got when she worked information, and how this device might respond to similar. "Hey, I want this show where there's this guy, and this girl, and there's this other guy, who's funny, and there's always something wacky happening..." The real killer app for this is, of course, porn. Google can surely do it, but probably is wondering how to market it properly. You need a program that can "watch" a clip and correctly identify any relevant traits -- number of participants, actions performed, hair color, ethnicity, physical traits, clothing styles, location, etc. Most porn search engines barely work because the site owners throw in every possible keyword, relevant or not. Or, uhm, so I've heard. From friends. Distant friends. Acquaintances, really.
Raise your children to talk wrong. Remember also to teach them, "mambo dogface to the banana patch" means "can I go to the bathroom"? You'll get hours of laughs when you send them off to school for the first time.
ads are never 'relevant'.
why do you think that its still OK to have a 'push model' instead of a 'pull model'?
if I am interested in learning about X, I can search for it!
this isn't 20 years ago when that was not possible.
today it is. its beyond stupid to keep with the push-style model when there's no GOOD reason for it.
note, I said GOOD reason. sure, there are reasons but none of them good.
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