Article: The Value Proposition In Audio: Voice Control For Audiophiles (You Can't Buy Too Soon - You Can Only Sell Too Late)

[The Computer Audiophile]

This is fantastic @bluesman

 

I've been following josh.ai for a while now. I think josh is the company to watch in the high end space for sure. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, bobflood said:

I don’t want to talk to my stereo but I do want it to sing to me.

I bet it doesn't want you to sing to it :~)

[The Computer Audiophile]

25 minutes ago, bluesman said:

Thanks for your time & comments!  There's so much potential here that I'm amazed the audio industry hasn't recognized how important VC & AI are for development and sales of future products.  We all experience mechanical controller failures in everything we use, from audio to cars to coffee machines.  Tiny touch screens, bubble switches, touch sensitive controls etc are only pseudoelectronic - they still have physical parts that fail too often.  We could eliminate most of those last century pieces and concepts by integrating excellent voice recognition and synthesis with AI. Imagine no more noisy pots, no cracked or dented bubble switches, no broken or lost knobs, minimal internal wiring, etc.

 

Then imagine being able to control and monitor every audio parameter of interest to us in real time using voice input and synthesized voice response.  Throw in AI's ability to monitor real time performance and identify impending failures by detecting as yet inaudible changes in everything from voltage & current stability at various points to distortion to early ID of asymmetry in channel outputs.  In addition to telling your system what you want to hear (and how and where and when...), you could ask for a status check and get a verbal response plus a downloadable log report.  You could set up spontaneous verbal warnings when voltage, temperature, and other metrics go out of spec.  You could alter or switch amplifier operating characteristics to A-B changes in SQ.

 

How about a status report when powering up, e.g.  "Good morning, Bob - your system is in perfect operating condition and ready to play"?  Get vocal alerts as needed - "THD in your left channel has increased to 105% of the right channel.  Diagnostics show early failure of V4 with no other abnormality.  Replace tube."

 

This is cool stuff!  I can't wait to play with it all as it develops.

Agree 100%
 

It’s all cool stuff and it’s helpful (system status alerts etc...). Getting cool and helpful, not gimmicky is key. 
 

I’d love to change a setting without navigating an endless menu that I haven’t used in 6 months. VC makes it easy. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

16 minutes ago, bluesman said:

[Chris, if you can drop this in, it will save others the irritation of the typo.]

Ahhhh. Done.