Ubi Is Siri for Your Home

CommanderFrank

CommanderFrank

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Do you like the ease of the Siri-type applications doing your bidding solely by voice commands? Then you will really like the new Ubi for your household operations. Ubi is a Kickstarter project and is well on its way to becoming a reality to help out around the house.

Ubi runs Android 4.1 on an 800 mHz ARM cortex processor, with a gigabyte of RAM and a USB port for expansion and more functions. Powered by the socket it plugs into, Ubi is networked via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for close-range communication.
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Like hell I'm going to let Ubisoft into my house and have them constantly call me a home invader-- oh, wait... that's not Ubisoft. Yeah, the name needs to go. I propose JARVIS. :D
 
I saw this a few days ago, and I was interested until I saw the price.
 
man when i read that title i thought that Ubisoft was doing something with uplay

thank god i was wrong heh
 
$189 for this thing? Are you freaking kidding me?

Seems like any $80 USB Android stick could do the same thing if it had the right software...which is something I'm sure will be available once its released either through legit download or hacking.

Oh and the name has to change too...oncoming legal suit!
 
just wait until Apple sues them over it - even though it was in Star Trek in the 1960's & 70's and I had voive control on my Win 98 machine.
 
I don't understand what I'm supposed to tell it to do. None of the stuff I am seeing on the link are practical when talking about a stationary object plugged into a low wall socket.

BOOBIE, ORDER ME A PIZZA
 
I have been experimenting with speech recognition for many years now and I can say that it's not up to par yet. It's still in its infancy. The Google SR is in particular, which I have tinkered with a little on my Asus Transformer, pretty poor. Neither Dragon or MS SR works well enough to trust and this is with using a boom mic. If you put that thing somewhere in the room it might have 70% accuracy on a good day with no noise in the house at all and great acoustics. ...... MAYBE. But probably not. Look at the HomeSeer forum. There are plenty of people who have tried out HomeSeer's SR functionality, spending thousands of dollars on mic arrays and special gadgets to cancel noise and even they say that they get very poor accuracy. I have tried using the SR functionality with my MicasaVerde Vera using the mic on top of my monitor which is several feet away from my mouth and it sucks. I have to use a boom mic. And at that point I'd rather just use a tool on my tablet or the WebUI. It's a great idea but it will blow.
 
spppsh, i've been speaking into my mouse all this time.

in san francisco.

in 1984.

>.>
 
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