Opera announces Voice EPG technology
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 21 February 2005 - 09:50 · 29 comments & 9849 views
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#1 Posted by divertom15 on 21 Feb 2005 - 10:03
- implementing other things when theres clear problems with the software and their business plan. Go firefox. heh if i want the ads ill install the firefox ad plugin.
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#1.1 Posted by Octol on 21 Feb 2005 - 10:13
- You should STFU when there are clear problems with your attention span.
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#1.2 Posted by ArKeYa on 21 Feb 2005 - 10:18
- What does voice-enabled technology have to do with ads and firefox?
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#1.3 Posted by Jugalator on 21 Feb 2005 - 10:52
- I think he made the connection:
Opera Software -> makes a competitor to Firefox -> Enter flame mode.
The problem is just that these news has nothing to do with their regular web browser on the PC, as little as Microsoft news automatically has something to do with Internet Explorer. I doubt he even read the news. Heck, this electronic guide will probably be implemented in a commercial product and you won't see anything about ads at all. -
#1.4 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 21 Feb 2005 - 11:33
- GJ & GG.
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#2 Posted by woundxp on 21 Feb 2005 - 10:42
- removed
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#3 Posted by _Dom_ on 21 Feb 2005 - 11:44
- me: "what channel has the most naked girls on"
tv: channel 63 sir
me: change to channel 63
tv: /me displays naked girls
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#3.1 Posted by imtoomuch on 21 Feb 2005 - 13:10
- Channel 63 is the Animal Planet...
Anyway, voice recognition needs to be vastly improved from the state it's at before it will be used extensively in consumer products.
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#4 Posted by shichiroji4 on 21 Feb 2005 - 13:40
- Opera news is always the same: All form and no sbustance.
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#4.2 Posted by VB Guy on 21 Feb 2005 - 15:12
- But they didn't donate anything, and they still suck, therefore your point is moot.
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#4.4 Posted by tlogank on 21 Feb 2005 - 16:58
- Man, you guys would flame Opera even if they donated $1,000,000,000 to end world hunger. You would probably complain that because they put their name on the check that they were advertising and suck for that.
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#4.6 Posted by tlogank on 21 Feb 2005 - 17:02
- wow VB Guy, it is guys like you that can make this thread annoying. How about you go to some site where people actually care for your stupid comments, because no one does here.
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#4.7 Posted by SquareSoft0 on 21 Feb 2005 - 23:30
- Which troll are we talking about? I see a few.
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#5 Posted by bathisland on 21 Feb 2005 - 14:30
- I have been using Opera now for over two years. To be fair to Firefox I downloaded it when 1.00 came out. Needless to say it lasted less then 10 mins on my computer. I love opera and cannot do without it. Good to hear voice tech will be coming in this excellent pc of software.
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#6 Posted by Galley on 21 Feb 2005 - 15:04
- Opera 8 will be ready in "weeks". WooHoo!
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#7 Posted by [X]-bYtE on 21 Feb 2005 - 15:23
- Nice to see Opera still make new technologies. Opera Software is one inovative company for sure!
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#8 Posted by FluX on 21 Feb 2005 - 16:49
QUOTE implementing other things when theres clear problems with the software and their business plan. Go firefox. heh if i want the ads ill install the firefox ad plugin.
I don't see how these news has anything to do with firefox, but this is very common on neowin. What is it with these browser wars, some people need to grow-up and stop thinking they are in this "elite clan" which makes there opinions truer than others just because they use firefox.
IT IS A WEB BROWSER FOR GOD'S SAKE!
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#9 Posted by yizuman on 21 Feb 2005 - 17:44
- Opera is bloated, just like Microsuck.
Long live Firefox!
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#10 Posted by SquareSoft0 on 21 Feb 2005 - 23:33
- Wow, that's a nice feature there, now I can surf pr0n with no hands!
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#11 Posted by Hills420 on 26 Feb 2005 - 15:13
- I'v never liked opera much. Why don't they try to write their own backend like mozilla.
The voice-enabled EPG is a significant breakthrough in the effort to enhance the customer experience. Finally, there is an easier way for people to interact with their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV set top boxes without having to negotiate an array of remote controls.
A differentiating benefit for consumers, the voice-enabled EPG helps make avigating complex data structures easy by using simple voice commands. For example, with the increasingly daunting number of television channels available, sorting through information and channel navigation can be done without effort by talking to your set top box.
Opera is making headway into the home media market with their Web browser solutions and powerful HTML and JavaScript-based presentation engine. The voice-enabled EPG is a multimodal (or multiple forms of input and output such as speech, keyboard or handwriting) project aimed at increasing awareness in the consumer electronics sector of the benefits of voice-enabled Web technologies.
"Opera is a leading player in making technology easy and accessible for people in their everyday lives, and the voice-enabled EPG is not science fiction, but a compelling demonstration of what you can do with Web technologies for home media," says Igor Jablokov, Director, Multimodal and Voice Portals, IBM Software Group. "We are excited to continue our relationship with Opera to help set the standards for a voice-enabled Web."
"Opera's Web-based presentation environment is ideal for applications like EPGs, Video-on-Demand, Web browsing, and other interactive services because of its speed, standards-compliance and easy customization," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. Operators can brand and specialize their offerings, and end-users can customize the appearance and functionality to their liking. The integration of voice with data is a natural evolution, and has enormous potential in the integrated home media market. Through our efforts with IBM(R), we hope to enable operators and OEMs to quickly get their HTML and Javascript-based applications talking."
Opera's voice-enabled EPG announcement was made just weeks before Opera rolls out their new voice-enabled edition of the Opera browser for PCs.
The voice-enabled EPG is written in XHTML+Voice or X+V multimodal programming language and is available in English with initial targets aimed at enterprise customers and developers. For a demonstration of X+Vmultimodal speech applications, visit: www.ibm.com/pvc/multimodal. Opera's Software Development Kit is based on the IBM(R) WebSphere Multimodal Toolkit, with its IBM WebSphere(R) Everyplace(R) Multimodal Environment, that includes IBM Embedded ViaVoice(R) and allows developers to easily build multimodal applications for devices ranging from low resource set top boxes to high-end Digital Video Recorders using the industry standards-based X+V markup language that combines XHTML and VoiceXML.