My new mobile phone has voice control. This is nothing really new but the latest incarnation is quite cool; you need record a so-called "Magic Word" and, when it's switched into Magic Word voice control mode, you just need to say the aforesaid word and the phone starts listening more intently for further commands like "Fiona" "Home" at which point it phones my wife at home, "Busy" tells it to pretend I'm busy if I don't want to answer an incoming call and "Answer" does the opposite, as you would expect. There are other control words, but you get the picture.
But I'm troubled by all this techno-wonderment. I feel like I need a really good Magic Word. It has to be something that I'm not going find myself saying very often otherwise the phone will chirp into active voice control mode every few minutes thus killing the battery but besides that, I can't help but think that the Magic Word should be cool sounding too.
"Abracadabra" sounds lame, but what about something like "Engage!" or "Systems Activate!", "Mission Control", "Data, do you read me?"
The voice control words should also sound less staccatto, I should use "Get me Fiona" instead of just "Fiona", but the "Get me" part may confuse the phone's voice-rec if every contact name has it prepended.
The sequence; "Data, are you there?, --Bleep-- "Get me Fiona" just sounds the biz-niz to my geek sensibilities.
Magic Word suggestions on a post-card...
But I'm troubled by all this techno-wonderment. I feel like I need a really good Magic Word. It has to be something that I'm not going find myself saying very often otherwise the phone will chirp into active voice control mode every few minutes thus killing the battery but besides that, I can't help but think that the Magic Word should be cool sounding too.
"Abracadabra" sounds lame, but what about something like "Engage!" or "Systems Activate!", "Mission Control", "Data, do you read me?"
The voice control words should also sound less staccatto, I should use "Get me Fiona" instead of just "Fiona", but the "Get me" part may confuse the phone's voice-rec if every contact name has it prepended.
The sequence; "Data, are you there?, --Bleep-- "Get me Fiona" just sounds the biz-niz to my geek sensibilities.
Magic Word suggestions on a post-card...