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susie_floThis weekend, while driving down to Brighton, we attempted to stream music using the voice-activated music selector on G's android phone. This really is the worst interface ever. It couldn't understand a single word either of us said and all of G's attempts to bellow "REM" at it were met with a deep-voiced 'Fonejacker' reply of "Matching song not found. Please repeat your instruction"
After endless failed attempts, in a range of accents, I decided to do Fonejacker-voice right back at it and said "We want a gay flat share in Brighton" ...and it immediately started playing Holiday by Madonna.
(We lol'd.)
And then G's despair took over and he bellowed some garbled rage at it... at which point it paused and said "Do you want to listen to Doolittle, by The Pixies?" And G's face lit up and he shouted "YES!" And then it paused again, and re-started Holiday. (I may have lol'd alone at this point)
Seriously, though, voice activated tech: just say NO, unless you have low blood pressure. (We had to do a Radio 4 quiz just to make everything ok again).
After endless failed attempts, in a range of accents, I decided to do Fonejacker-voice right back at it and said "We want a gay flat share in Brighton" ...and it immediately started playing Holiday by Madonna.
(We lol'd.)
And then G's despair took over and he bellowed some garbled rage at it... at which point it paused and said "Do you want to listen to Doolittle, by The Pixies?" And G's face lit up and he shouted "YES!" And then it paused again, and re-started Holiday. (I may have lol'd alone at this point)
Seriously, though, voice activated tech: just say NO, unless you have low blood pressure. (We had to do a Radio 4 quiz just to make everything ok again).
