Thursday, September 15th 2011
MSI Displays Voice-Activated Motherboard Technology
PCs following voice commands isn't new. Windows comes with Speech Recognition and voice-command features, which when properly configured, can serve as a great accessibility feature. MSI plans to take voice commands a step further with what it calls "Voice Activated Motherboard" technology. The feature extends voice-commands to OS-independent ACPI functions such as powering on the PC from halted state (cold booting), suspend it, or powering down, both graceful (OS shutdown) and forceful (power off).
The feature depends on a daughterboard accessory that requires a PCI-Express x1 slot. This daugherboard connects to the motherboard using a special header found on some recent MSI motherboards that has been labelled "JDLED3", and a mic/line input. JDLED3, we assume, gives the card some low-level connectivity to the board that it can't have through HAL. The rest of the daughterboard looks to have a some legacy circuitry and an ADC. On the OS side, MSI will deploy the Voice Genie software which can be used to get the device to recognize your voice and set your own voice commands. The software probably could even be used to suspend voice recognition. Otherwise, imagine telling your Teamspeak buddy in-game to "restart" the server or a map, and the board following a system restart command that sounds identical. MSI says that this accessory will have a "more than affordable price."
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The feature depends on a daughterboard accessory that requires a PCI-Express x1 slot. This daugherboard connects to the motherboard using a special header found on some recent MSI motherboards that has been labelled "JDLED3", and a mic/line input. JDLED3, we assume, gives the card some low-level connectivity to the board that it can't have through HAL. The rest of the daughterboard looks to have a some legacy circuitry and an ADC. On the OS side, MSI will deploy the Voice Genie software which can be used to get the device to recognize your voice and set your own voice commands. The software probably could even be used to suspend voice recognition. Otherwise, imagine telling your Teamspeak buddy in-game to "restart" the server or a map, and the board following a system restart command that sounds identical. MSI says that this accessory will have a "more than affordable price."
52 Comments on MSI Displays Voice-Activated Motherboard Technology
I also tried a Louisiana swamp style voice, even worse results than Aussie :laugh:
[yt]p3JcHhA7M-Y[/yt]
Cheesy british language ?.. As like America there is many types of accent in fact me living here in america for the last 7 years most think i am from Australia at there 1st guess lol.I'd kill the computer when it says cannot comply.
This made me LOL a LOT. Thanks! :)
Computer: *opens notepad*
Your mom: Who are you talking to, better not be a girl in there
You: Mom is just the computer
Mom: Oh, why the hell are you talking to an inadement object?
I'm sure it's an option that can be turned off or on. I'd love to play with it.
Just waiting for MSI to send me a unit, and I'll let you guys know what I think!
I'm gonna be stuck using just one arm for a while. This is gonig to limit my ability to do reviews, and game, for sure.
Perhaps this thing will help me specifically, when I have my surgery? I am actually very interested in this because of that.
So if your PC always craps out during nature test #4, you just tell it:
Multiplier down
Multiplier down
And you're set!
Of course there's a lot of stuff you can set/do and of course customize some commands (Turn me on sexy).
And yeah, not related to PWM at all :)