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Voice Interfaces?
The latest thing seems to be SNoV. Yes, Social Networking over Voice!
I read an article this morning on TC Blabnote: The Voice-Only Social Network. Say What?. Basically it uses voice recognition software to allow you to do your social networking.
This is a concept that could work very well in Africa (with mobiles as such an important medium). People that don't have PCs and that don't like spending hours giving their thumbs an extreme workout can simply make a phone call. The only problem is that phone network capacity is rapidly becoming a problem as well as the ridiculously high costs to make a phone call in many African countries.
However, the possibilities are immense. First we have our web interfaces. Now rapidly more and more South African social sites are getting mobile interfaces. Next step would naturally be to look into a "voice interface". If one can create generic software for voice interfaces and use voice recognition engines that understand South African accents then we could do a lot in this space.
Just some random Saturday afternoon thoughts...
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
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