Ufone Launched a Song Catcher - Here are MORE practical applications of tags!
Saturday, December 13, 2008 2:22Someone recently posted an ad on Facebook which is a service that Ufone recently launched - something called a song catcher…. and that gave me the excuse I was looking for to blow off the rest of my day searching for how this works. The concept itself isn’t a new one - I found an interesting paper on music information retrieval that highlights accents and different spoken languages and pronounciation of words. Here’s another really interesting site about how all this works: Midomi.
Voice Recognition, is something we’ve watched in movies and recently, started using it in our cell phones. Say “home” or a name into your phone and it will learn the way you talk, and link it with the record that it is supposed to reveal at the command of your voice. Despite the fact that it is really quite simple, you have to admit that it’s a cool (though at times, an irritatingly pointless) feature!
But to give a completely different application of VR systems to better manage your entertainment, takes the cake! It’s practical, costs nothing and encourages you to keep building on your iTunes library. Metadata can makes random bits of information more meaningful and easier to search. So as I was pondering over how the application could actually make my everyday life more innovative. The amount of data that any file retains with it, is phenomenal. A song file is more meaningful if it can be searched to stand out from billions of song files in the archives of the internet. The same metadata, or tags, that we use to better categorize our data (files, folders, bits and bytes of information), can be accessed the same way.
A file management system that can be used for people with impaired vision. Forget a separate screen reading software such as JAWS (which is really quite expensive!), but perhaps a similar learning/interactive interface can be developed so that you can literally tell your computer what to do - what files to open, what files to play. And then take it one step further and expand that user interactive experience to the Web. Say the commands outloud and have your every whim taken care of!
So here I was going a little more crazy, when I came across Tazti (pronounced Tasty!) and videos of how you can surf the internet by talking to your desktop! Once you have your tags in place, the technology and apps are already in place to pick it all up!
The moral of the story? Have your tags in place. The apps will take care of the rest while you remain hands-free and vocal to get the job done!
