what would you want to be able to do? from squeezeboxen or any networked audio system? beyond just replicating functionality that already exists, is there something that's unique about a voice-controlled system?
It adds some level of suspense to your music listening experience: does it really understand what I want? Or will it play the great group "Prints" again, instead of Prince? What about AC/DC's "Health Bells"?
Really, I don't get all the hype around voice controlled systems. In particular not in a music listening environment: do you really want to shut down the party just so your system does understand what you're yelling at it? I doubt it...
And no, I didn't make up above examples. That's the results I got from one such voice recognition system. Ok, I'm not a native English speaker. But results don't get any better at all once you want to talk to it in German. "Spiel mir Prinz". Nah...
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