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Google TV is getting voice search. And that’s pretty awesome because some of us get violently angry at scrolling through pages and pages of a guide.
You can search by specific show name, or if you’re not sure what you want to watch, you can say a genre or a topic like “reality television.” No one ever remembers channel numbers anyway, so now you can just simply say the name, like “BBC.”
Google’s also adding PrimeTime, an unobtrusive improvement to the on-screen guide. As neat as these additions are in and of themselves, they’re also shots fired across the bow of Google’s biggest adversary; Apple’s been rumoured to put Siri in your television-either through Apple TV or an Apple-branded HDTV-for years now. Chalk this up to a battle won by Google in the TV arms race. [Google via The Verge]
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Google Voice Search is awesome and iOs Siri is NOT!
T is for troll?
Do you have a PhD in awesomeness? Is there scientific confirmation for your claim?
No but if I do I might need to patent it?
wow.
You need to patent ‘shitfacedness’
“Google voice search is awesome iOs Siri is NOT!”
I think he came from Youtube.
I wouldn’t know what to say.
“Turn this shit off”
I wonder how background noise cancellation would work on something like this. A dedicated machine like Kinect itself has problems listening over game scores. If they mute the tele, everytime you speak, its kind of annoying.. plus it could mute everytime you try talking to someone in the room. If you have to shout over the audiotrack, that’s just..
Might sound thick, but wouldn’t the old ’2 microphones’ trick work? One at either end of the remote, one for ambient noise, and one for vocals, like most phones and headphones.
Probably, but then the remote would have to be in clear hearing distance (maybe) pretty much within reaching distance.
But the TV itself knows what sound it is playing so in theory could be able to cancel itself’s sound out.
Ahh, I didn’t watch the video, wow. Useless. The remote is the microphone, wtf.
Haha, I just read your comment and was about to say ‘Wait a minute…. why does the TV matter…’ I suppose the microphone for voice could be in the TV remote, then that is sent to the TV, which then cancels out the output sound, then runs that through the Voice algorithm, then sends the resultant text to the internet.
Remote mic is kind of futile when you have ‘Dolby Surround’ or some big theatre at home.
Better than nothing, I suppose. Maybe when you press the Voice Search button, it simply just mutes the TV.
From what little I know about sound tech, I have a posssssssssible solution (that could be complete nonsense, but hey-ho): could you not reverse the sound and play it back to wherever the microphone is, thus cancelling the TV sound and leaving just voice? Surely it can then be calibrated to exactly the same time as the TV is making sound, completely eradicating it. Use this in conjunction with dual mics for ambient noise and you have quite a killer noise-cancelling kit.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-line-level/148027-software-noise-cancellation-antisound.html#post1892388
this is what I’m talking about, aha.
People have a go at Sony’s incredibly intuitive XMB, when isn’t the Google TV UI the same, just with the horizontal switched for vertical and vice versa?
I will miss XMB when it is inevitably replaced on the PS4
XMB is awesome, but getting stale now.
In the video, though, I swear Google’s setup is the same, just with categories vertically, on the side, and the options horizontal?
Same, but looks different, no one else will notice, it’s more flashy therefor looks better in the shop.
I suppose it’s just that good format.
DAVE!
Sorted!
I wanna get this just to try the following searches:
“TV show about crap singing”
“TV show where so called ‘celebrities’ eat bugs for TV airtime”
“pr0n”
Of course Google beat siri to tv voice search. They’ve been doing voice search for longer than apple, have a better voice search product and have a tv product on which voice search is actually useful. It’s like saying someone who has been doing online maps for years could do a better map product than Apple Maps.