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"Mr. Spock, you’d make a wonderful computer." – Star Trek
"Lock on to him R2!" – Star Wars Episode III
People talk to computers in the future. It’s the most natural form of communication. One day I would love to carry a phone that was as smart as R2D2.
I can’t live without my Nokia E61 since it has a QWERTY keyboard. What if I could just talk to my phone? Use my voice as an input device.
"Nokia, appointment, dentist at 5 pm on Friday." Imagine if you uttered those words and your phone was smart enough to know what you said and automatically added it to your calendar? The processing power to do something like this on a mobile phone isn’t there yet.
What can we do today?
Why don’t we make an application that I can launch, hit record, put the phone up to my face, say a few words, hit stop recording and now I set an alarm. When that time comes my phone rings, I pick it up and I hear my little reminder. It’s crude, but for people who don’t have a QWERTY keyboard on their phones they can now setup little todo’s that are a lot more personal. Better yet, these little snippets of sound can be stored as mp3 files on the phone and can be sent OTA to a service like Jott who then provides a transcript. This transcript can now be sent to a "Notes" application on your phone, which is also synced to a server online.
We have the technology; no one is building the solutions.
About The Author
Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
