The ultimate in luxury for couch potatoes has to be the voice activated TV remote from Oki and a Waseda University team. The effort, of course by the tech-team, is to isolate the users voice from the rest of the babble. The endeavor is successful because the remote uses four microphones embedded in the front of the remote, plus "a proprietary algorithm for voice frequency analysis [that] detects talking that originates from directly in front of the device and automatically separates this out from other sounds being picked up by the microphones." The task is to decipher who is giving the orders in order to change TV channels, dimming lights etc.
The ultimate in luxury for couch potatoes has to be the voice activated TV remote from Oki and a Waseda University team. The effort, of course by the tech-team, is to isolate the users voice from the rest of the babble. The endeavor is successful because the remote uses four microphones embedded in the front of the remote, plus "a proprietary algorithm for voice frequency analysis [that] detects talking that originates from directly in front of the device and automatically separates this out from other sounds being picked up by the microphones." The task is to decipher who is giving the orders in order to change TV channels, dimming lights etc.
