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Listnr Wants to be 'Your Listening Assistant' (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the can-you-hear-me-now? dept.

This Listnr is "a new listening device connected to the cloud" being developed by a team in Japan that's currently running a Kickstarter project looking for $50,000 by March 7. The other Listnr "is a free music service helping people discover the best music from independent artists on Soundcloud and Bandcamp." More accurately, that's what it was, since their last Facebook post was in 2011 and their domain name is now for sale. Today's Listnr -- the listening device one -- claims it is able to tell whether a baby it hears is laughing, crying, gurgling or trying to talk. It is supposed to respond to finger snaps, hand claps, and other audio commands. It has an open API so that you can extend its use however you like. The company, too, is working on new applications for their product. Will there be enough of them, and will they interest enough people, to make this a success? Co-Founder Rie Ehara says, "We wanted to build something using sound to enrich and delight our lives." As of today (Feb. 2), Listnr is slightly less than halfway to its Kickstarter goal, so it's still a coin-toss whether or not Listnr will succeed.

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  1. Better name: the Eavesdropr by jandrese · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A device that listens all of the time and has an API for programming events and everything? No talk on their Kickstarter about the privacy implications? This seems well thought out.

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    1. Re:Better name: the Eavesdropr by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 2

      As a home automation hobbyist I can see the value of such a device. Listening all the time for certain audible events and having an API could make this useful in a HA setup. However to this "connected to the cloud" I say:"not on my watch". If it's not autonomous, I'm not having it.

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  2. Obligatory by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2

    Listnr -- the listening device one -- claims it is able to tell whether a baby it hears is laughing, crying, gurgling or trying to talk.

    Simpsons did it!

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  3. Re:HTML5 VIDEO YIPPPPPEEEEE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    HELLO THIS IS THE YIPPPPEEEE guy (rather his impersonation),

    yipppppppppppppppeeeeeee to slashdot team, making HTML5 video!

    It auto-plays. It is the devil.

  4. What the hell, Slashdot? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

    Is anyone else getting the page I'm getting? A giant black box autoplaying - autoplaying! - the interview (but audio only on Firefox), then the summary, and then a Flash video of the same thing?

    Autoplaying makes it look like you don't care that the user might want to make their own choice as to if or when he watches the video (or that you think they're incapable of making the video play by choice). Doubling it up just makes you look like you don't know what you're doing.

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  5. Re:From Japan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Japan puts all their research points in robots and mechas. Do you think our web 2.0 Beta websites will protect us from the inevitable onslaught?

  6. Autoplaying video by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fuck off.

    And this isn't even on Beta

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    1. Re:Autoplaying video by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2

      Noscript just served up a page with a big hole in it.