Community/SoapBox

I did a quick search on this product. It is a dog,. It does not respond to voice commands in any way that would make you anything but angry. You would toss it in the garbage if getting your money back was not an option.

Sounds interesting. All great and widely used technologies began in this fashion…something kind of cool, kinda works, etc. The ultimate automated enviroinment will surely have voice activation involved.

Yeah, I found a review that suggested the VR leaves a little something to be desired. Changes in one’s pitch throw the remote off, and it won’t respond. Basically you have to speak exactly like you did when training the remote in order for it to work. In other words, just like my cell phone’s voice dialing feature…

At this date in time, trying to pull off VA/VR on a $40 CE product is plain dumb. VR is a viable tool and I do believe it has a viable future in HA. Background noise, speech tone changes there are considerable hurdles but VR in the right situation can work quite well right now. Pre-learned out-of-box VR can be very effective, again given the right circumstances. What would be one? Sitting on your commode and needing to execute a function; don’t laugh, some people spend a lot of time on their pottys aptly know as The Reading Center. Is this a place where you want to be fooling with a touchscreen?

This looked like a good remote for my 80 year old father, who has dementia to the level that he cannot connect with the right buttons on even a simple remote (read this as: remotes have other practical uses beyond accomodating the lazy).  I cannot even talk him through pressing the correct buttons while I guide him over the phone so he can get the right channel for the ball game.  BUT, I could get him to say “Channel 36” or “Power” into a VR capable remote.  But given the reviews here, I will wait for a better product.