BlueAnt's new speech recognition gadgets - cool!

 

 Via PCMag.com, today - At this year's CTIA Wireless conference:

 "BlueAnt showed off three new Bluetooth-enabled products—two of which offer voice recognition—that the company had originally announced back in January at CES 2008. Its V1 Voice Controlled Headset features Sensory, Inc.'s BlueGenie Voice Interface, which eliminates having to memorize complicated sequences of button pushes. Instead, you talk to the device and (in theory) it tries to figure out what you want it to do. The V1 also includes dual microphones along with Voice Isolation Technology for more effective noise cancellation, wind noise reduction, and better sound quality.

 

 The second model, the BlueAnt Supertooth 3, is an upgrade to last year's Supertooth Light hands-free device. Like the older model, it either clips to your car's sun visor or sits on your desk. It builds on the former model's text-to-speech technology, which announces incoming callers names and caller ID information. The Supertooth 3 lets you activate voice dialing, answer calls, reject calls, and redial all with just the sound of your voice, and also includes a DSP chip for noise cancellation."

 

Microphone in your tooth? Available now!

 

 A company called Chinavasion is now in production of, yes, you read it right - a Bluetooth microphone inside your tooth of choice.

 

 Per Chinavasion's web page:
"The durable composite resin filling is designed to fit in a hole 2.2mm in diameter and 1.7 mm deep and will pick up sound and vibrations from your mouth to produce incredibly clear sound.. never forget your trusty bluetooth kit ever again, simply install and forget".

 It's a unique concept, that's for sure. This mandible-to-microphone technology's been around a while, and works very, very well.
(E.G. Aliph's Jawbone headset).

   Are we seeing the future of microphones .. ?

 

Newest throat-mounted microphone ??

 

 Pro Idee, a UK website for the Denmark online retailer Pro-Idee GmbH & Co. KG is offering a pretty innovative microphone [click image for larger view in new window]:



 Pro-Idee's specs. include the microphone offering nine hours of talk-time, 10db of noise suppression and complete Bluetooth feature functionality,
 (Click here to read the CNET review).

~ We'd love to hear from anyone that's tried this hardware..

 

Speech-controlling Bluetooth devices..

 

 Foxlink Group and Sensory, Inc. have teamed up to bring speech I/O (speech recognition and spoken prompts) to Bluetooth products.
How cool!

 Foxlink's US Operations President, Mr. James Lee, notes: “Our customers want improved user experiences for their headset products. With Sensory’s voice recognition and speech output technologies we can add more features, while making the products easier to use".

 According to their announcement's web page, speech recognition makes Bluetooth device controls far more convenient and intuitive; and having a pleasant voice confirming status and commands, rather than beeps or light flashes, adds to the VUI experience.

 Once again, speech recognition easily solves a common problem: "Do I hold down the right button, or the left button? Where did I store that manual, anyway .. ??"

 Moreover, analysts are predicting speech control over devices, commonly referred to as VUI (Voice User Interface), will quickly become a common device interface.

"I think this is an intermediary step for what’s going to come.." says Datamonitor analyst Daniel Hong.


 Foxlink is one of the world’s largest independent manufacturers of Bluetooth headsets, a manufacturer and/or ODM for most of the major brands that use 3rd party silent OEM's.

 Sensory is a market leader in embedded speech technologies and the 1st speech technology provider to port a VUI to a single chip Bluetooth solution with Cambridge Silicon Radio, a premier Bluetooth chipset manufcturer.