Comments on: Say2GO Offers Asynchronous Voice Chat For Windows Users

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:58:23 +0000

Instant messaging, a technology that actually predates the Internet

Ah yes, I remember those teleportation pigeons, in whom rolled-up notes could be secreted before they’d disappear before your eyes and rematerialise at a colleague’s house. I wonder what happened to them? I never saw any since the early 70s…

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By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:14:16 +0000

Say2GO Offers Asynchronous Voice Chat For Windows Users…

Say2GO is a new near-real-time voice messaging system. It provides users the ability to send and receive voice messages that are transcribed using voice recognition and sent as both audio and text. The desktop client uses the Microsoft Speech API for …

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:58:24 +0000

Struth mate, whaddiya mean he ad a strooong Ostralian Accent?????? Don’t those galah’s at Moircrosoft know howda translate an Aussie???

What would happen if you had Indian accent then?

By: You SEO partner

You SEO partner — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:08:51 +0000

Well that sounds like a cool idea, if the voice recognition software is good enough, it would be cool if it could also translate the text so you could international calls.

By: Svetlana P

Svetlana P — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:10:12 +0000

I would disagree with people disregarding Say2GO “voicing” as another incarnation of useless voicemail. As I understand, here you can exchange quick voice messages almost instantly, and unlike voicemail (or, fr that matter, a regular phone talk) - you can cancel recording your message if you have mumbled something incomprehensible)) and start over. not a bad thing, especially if I can then send it to a regular phone as a prerecorded voicemail (can I with say2GO?)

It will probably take some time for people to get used to voicing, just as it once took for email users to get used to text IM. I also doubt that Say2GO can take off as a widespread IM network if not linking to other major networks smartly. But their approach seems so complementary to existing instant messengers that it’ll probably soon be on a shopping list of big guys like Microsoft or Yahoo, or Google…

By: Juan Baptista

Juan Baptista — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:50:29 +0000

one important thing which might be easily overlooked is that this gizmo attempts implementing what i think is the best posible speech-to-text approach. Say2Go makes my PC recognize my part of the talk making a good use of my dual core processor and 4Gb RAM and my indivudual profile while the PC of the guy I’m talking to recognizes his or her part of the conversation. no superservers with profile re-loading needed any more! pretty smart.

By: Tomasz_aol

Tomasz_aol — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:51:57 +0000

I gave the app a quick run, actually sent a couple of voice messages to myself in say2go messenger , and I really liked the concepts. The interface might be too funny for business use. No surprise with SR - I having a well trained speech recognition profile (i’m using it often for dictating texts) and a GOOD headset was getting almost 100% accuracy. I’m sure though that on the present stage of SR technology those who tried using this function with a built-in laptop mic and a poorly trained profile would get MUCH worse results.

Anyway, as I’m also using ICQ a lot for business converations, I might even try to switch to say2go/ICQ for a test, to see how much time it would save me if I’d be saying my messages instead of typing and occasionally correcting the misrecognized parts. Hey, but where’s text search through the history? ALso it would be good to have forwarding of saved voice clips to another say2go user added sooner rather than later.

By: Murty BVNS

Murty BVNS — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:46:41 +0000

There is one immediate application which appeals to those who are in virtual teaching. The text transferred will be displayed in those chat sessions which gives the clarity of the topic being discussed as accents from different regions of the world varies. Those who attend distant learning programs and webinars find this very useful.

By: Murty BVNS

Murty BVNS — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:00:21 +0000

Very interesting indeed as it is coming near to the discussions we had on voice chat technologies way back in 1999 when we were having low speed connections ( as low as 4 KB) . The idea is to train the software to create a profile and like IM environments loaded into instant chat windows the profile is transferred to the other members who are participating in chats. The type script is converted to voice like the regular TT Engine converts. Like Mike and Mary TT profiles the user profiles also start speaking on our behalf. But real time conversion is critical process. First talk, let the engine convert it to text, transfer the text to other end, convert it to voice and its transfers on very low speed connections. It may be clumsy but applications could be plenty as they can translate it to other languages where this technology works wonders.

By: veomer

veomer — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:37:46 +0000

very interesting indeed

By: ImageCo

ImageCo — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:02:36 +0000

Does “limited beta” refer to their product or their logo. I’m guessing the logo.

By: ybbet

ybbet — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:44:43 +0000

I tried to implement the same exact thing two months ago but the microsoft speech api is totally useless. Good idea, but it’ll take many years before speech technology can handle something like this.

By: shane blyth

shane blyth — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:35:35 +0000

ill just use my phone

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By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:47:36 +0000

This is a step in the wrong direction IMO. Michael’s earlier posting on vmail drives it home: “think before you voicemail, more and more people just find it annoying.”

Who wants more voicemail?

By: gregory

gregory — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:45:28 +0000

thought voicemail was dead?

By: Paul..

Paul.. — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:18:19 +0000

Eat up Martha

By: tonygoomba

tonygoomba — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:27:39 +0000

This might be good for people who are blind, but other that, I doubt this will take off.

By: Paula escobar

Paula escobar — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:21:28 +0000

I hate voice recognition. For some reason they never recognize my accent
I have to say the same word over and over again. well maybe in 10 year that thing will recognize my accent until then I rather stick with writting.

Paula
http://www.websiteduty.com

By: fred2baro

fred2baro — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:31:17 +0000

I really don’t know how this could ever work. event individual don’t work .. I can’t see how multi user voice recognition could work … but who can tel anyway in this “ever-changing” technology world ..

By: Nik Cubrilovic

Nik Cubrilovic — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:05:10 +0000

As soon as the Microsoft Speech library is at a point where it is working better and users have built up their profiles/training, they will tie it into Office, MSN Messenger etc. etc. The way it is at the moment, its not very accesible or easy

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:00:22 +0000

haha maybe in another 10 years they will be able to get these voice recognition things working right..