Kindle is Listening: This is funny. I was typing an email on my Kindle, and my son came in and said something. When I went back to the Kindle, what he said was typed there. I must have...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This is funny. I was typing an email on my Kindle, and my son came in and said something. When I went back to the Kindle, what he said was typed there. I must have hit the microphone icon, and Kindle began listening and typing.

Imagine a room full of people "typing" orally on their devices. I guess it's useful if you're wearing mittens or hurt your fingers, but I've never used that feature.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

jerryc41 wrote:

This is funny. I was typing an email on my Kindle, and my son came in and said something. When I went back to the Kindle, what he said was typed there. I must have hit the microphone icon, and Kindle began listening and typing.

Imagine a room full of people "typing" orally on their devices. I guess it's useful if you're wearing mittens or hurt your fingers, but I've never used that feature.

I use it all the time on my cell phone when "typing" messages or email. If I forget to turn the sound off on the TV, the thing will type everything the TV says.
Also, the mistakes are sometimes great. I recently text my wife that "My Mic started to work again." Phone typed "Mike started to work again" so I said "of course I meant Mic as in M I C." Phone typed "of course I mean Mike Addison am I see. Mike (mic) Addison (as in) am I see (M I C). Took me a sec to figure out what the phone was hearing... always a treat. Still beats typing with fat fingers.

I've been trying to learn sliding around the "keyboard" rather than typing. Works OK and with some practice might be viable for some stuff.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I wonder how well it does with thick accents......

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

Nothing understands my Redneck… I will keep typing, I don’t want anything listening to me anyway. It is bad enough that everything I type on line results in ads appearing and ads in e-mail

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

BigDaddy wrote:

I use it all the time on my cell phone when "... (show quote)

Those misunderstandings make for great comedy on TV, even before cell technology.

I remember a bit on 60 Minutes years ago. They showed a telephone being carried inside a briefcase. The man could open the case and make a phone call. Amazing!

whatdat Loc: Del Valle, Tx.

Back in the 60’s a car dealership owner had one of those phones in a briefcase. He stopped in the same diner as a friend & I quite often. Every time he got a phone call on the thing everyone would go quiet and watch the show. Amazing how technology has grown in our lifetimes. What will technology produce in the next 50 years? Something to ponder.

whatdat Loc: Del Valle, Tx.

Back in the 60’s a car dealership owner had one of those phones in a briefcase. He stopped in the same diner as a friend & I quite often. Every time he got a phone call on the thing everyone would go quiet and watch the show. Amazing how technology has grown in our lifetimes. What will technology produce in the next 50 years? Something to ponder.
Oops. Sorry I posted twice; guess I’m slow on technology. :-)

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

whatdat wrote:

... Amazing how technology has grown in our lifetimes. What will technology produce in the next 50 years? Something to ponder.

I'm bettin' on the flying car.... I read it in Popular Science years ago.
Next, I'm bettin' on nuclear fusion, which is ALWAYS just 30 years away, and like tomorrow, never seems to get here...
I haven't forgotten about the carburetor the big car companies suppressed that runs on simple tap water either...

srg

BigDaddy wrote:

I'm bettin' on the flying car.... I read it in Popular Science years ago.
Next, I'm bettin' on nuclear fusion, which is ALWAYS just 30 years away, and like tomorrow, never seems to get here...
I haven't forgotten about the carburetor the big car companies suppressed that runs on simple tap water either...

I'm hoping they come up with a cost effective way to desalinate water.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

srg wrote:

I'm hoping they come up with a cost effective way to desalinate water.

That'll come right after Nuclear Fusion...

marvkaye

srg wrote:

I'm hoping they come up with a cost effective way to desalinate water.

Given the current state of materials technology I'm surprised no one has come up with floating condensors parked offshore that use wave action to pump the collected fresh water back to distribution points... probably cost prohibitive due to near-beach property values. Still.......

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

I do not use the audio for typing, I make enough mistakes by typing., I do not want to go back and correct all the audio errors. I do try to proof read my messages and emails before sending them for that reason. Alas, that does not always prove efficient.

ClaudiaA Loc: Venice, FL

My son & I were texting back & forth, was voice typing and this was the translation. I have saved it for years.