The Voice Line

The voice line is a suite of products that provides a simple clean conversational interface to a set of common applications. The product line's primary focus is interacting through speech recognition but includes several other interfaces including:

• Text sentences
• AOL IM messages
• SMS text messages
• Email
• Web
• Keyboard Macros

Despite the input method, the unifying characteristic of the product line is commands that control the computer through simple sentences.

Voice Clock
Voice clock is an implementation of a stopwatch/timer/alarm clock. It allows a user to execute time related commands including:

• Set alarm for Friday, 8 AM
• Wake me up at 10 AM
• Remind me in 1 hour and 20 minutes that I have to go out
• Time 2 minutes
• What time is it?
• What date is it?
• Start stopwatch

Voice Calculator
Voice calculator performs simple arithmetic calculations. It supports commands including:

• calculate 1+2
• solve 5+100*3
• calculate five hundred 15 minus 5 divided by 3
• what is the sum 1+2+3+5+6+7+8+9+22

Voice Organizer
Voice Organizer creates appointments, schedules meetings, composes lists, and takes notes. For example:

• What do I have to do today?
• What is my schedule this week?
• Create journal entry subject 'my day happened tomorrow'
• Create shopping list
• John's birthday is October 25th
• I have a doctor's appointment on May 6th at 9 in the morning
• Compose email to fred
• When is my doctor's appointment?

Media Voice
Media Voice allows you to control your media collection with simple commands inclucing:

• play music
• increase volume by 100 percent
• quiet the music please
• next track
• stop the music
• Play music by the grateful dead

It is currently compatible with the following players

Winamp

Windows Media Player

Voice Entertainment

This module controls your TV/VCR and other electronic equipment with simple voice commands including:

• Turn on the television
• Change the station to PBS
• Record NBC from 8 until 9 tonight
• Play DVD
• Increase the volume

Voice Home
This application allows the computer to control a home's lighting and electrical appliances using a technology called 'X10'. Due to the extensive hardware requirements for X10, this module is intended for the hobbyist/home automation enthusiast. Some sample commands are:

• Turn on the lights in the living room
• Turn on the coffee maker at 7 AM
• Turn up the heat 4 degrees
• Open the blinds
• Open the garage door

Voice Web
Distills the functions performed on the web into voice enabled tools. Rather than starting a browser, navigating to the weather page, and entering in you zip code simply say 'Get me the weather at Manassas Virginia' and the computer will do the rest. This application is a continually evolving subscription service. Currently it provides access to the following subject areas:

• Weather/temperature
• News
• Web Search
• Encyclopedia (Wikipedia)
• Electronic product reviews
• Stock market prices