Trying to find videos using Kinect's voice-recognition abilities is remarkably helpful.
(Credit: Matthew Moskovciak/CNET)The lately launched Xbox 360 360 dashboard update includes a clever Metro-based interface and new cloud-saving functionality, however the most fascinating aspect for cable-blades along with other streaming videophiles may be the integration of Bing video search and Kinect voice recognition.
We have had some hands-promptly having a preview version from the dashboard update, even though our didn't have the mix-platform search, up-to-date Netflix application, along with other video application enhancements that'll be within the official update, but we have had the opportunity to check simple voice-recognition video searching via Kinect and it is an encouraging (although imperfect) method of the recording search problem. (We'll be posting a far more in-depth hands-on with all the streaming-video-based updates in a few days.)
It's not hard to get numb towards the miracle of voice recognition, but trying to find TV and movie content in your TV by simply speaking continues to be pretty incredible. Typing out movie game titles utilizing an onscreen keyboard is extremely tiresome and it is great to simply say "The Departed" and also have the correct search engine results appear inside a second or two. Within the demo we have seen from the mix-platform search, the outcomes list all the services this content is on, too, getting rid of the necessity to commit to memory where specific submissions are available.
We put a number of search options at our Kinect over the past weekend even though it had not been 100% accurate, it had been close enough that people wound up having faith in it would develop the best result. Remarkably Kinect didn't have trouble understanding searching for director "Werner Herzog", but trying to find "Kids within the Hall" led to searching for "Kate Zentall". Actually, regardless of how much I enunciated, I could not get "Kids within the Hall" to appear.
Just like Bing video search and Kinect voice recognition is, we still wound up feeling just like a hybrid between voice control and taking advantage of the controller was best. Saying "Parks and Entertainment" is unquestionably faster than typing it, but for the steps next (choosing the best title, moving seasons, specific episodes), it's considerably faster to navigate having a controller.
Additionally, there are the truth that the Kinect requires you to talk with very specific instructions--there are here "Xbox 360 Bing Parks and Entertainment" rather than some thing natural like "Take part in the finale episode of Parks and Rec from season three." And you will need to speak slightly even louder than should you be speaking to a person within the room, from time to time veering toward "crazy person yelling in the TV" territory.
Despite the weak points, Bing video search with Kinect's voice recognition feels as though a legitimately helpful feature this is the quickest method of getting to content when guess what happens you need to watch. However, we've not seen anything (in demos or previews) that signifies the dashboard update will give you exactly the same unified content experience for browsing content, meaning you will still have to search with the various video-streaming applications if you are just searching for something to look at, try not to possess a specific title in your mind. That's something Google TV's Honeycomb update really does very well, even though it features its own group of the frustrations that hold it back.
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