So I got a new cell phone about six months ago, and while I immediately enjoyed the crappy camera it came with, for the most part I hadn’t explored the other features.
So I was waiting for Joel to pick up his rental car (a few pictures of his visit to come) at LAX last night, and I was playing with the “voice command” function.
Now, I assumed that because my old, shitty phone was made by the same manufacturer, I had to record names to be able to use voice dial.
But when I was tinkering with the phone last night, I noticed that its voice recognition software is ridiculously good. I tried like 20 different names and it picked them all up immediately.
And that’s just from taking what I typed in for each number’s name, and using some sort of conversion technology.
It’s really weird, it’s ridiculously advanced voice recognition technology for what’s basically a run-of-the mill shitty camera phone.
Granted, it’s not a feature I really use that terribly often, but it’s certainly useful when I’m driving.
Also, it’s something else for the “marginally useful yet totally nerdtastic feature” pile, a category that usually determines what electronic device I’ll be purchasing next.
My phone’s voice dial is also quite good, which is great while driving. Talking on the phone while driving isn’t really dangerous – dialing while driving is.