Related Project

The original idea of the project is combined lots of conception of existing work that show as below:

Traditional reminders

Some traditional but essential work in the past should be first mentioned, such as the paper calendar, alarm clock, notepad/notebook or recording pen. All of these items was playing important role in human beings life, user need these to record some staff, to note some “ToDo list”...

Drive and Talk

Dico is developed using the dialogue system GoDiS , GoDiS is an experimental dialogue system. A technique has been developed to transform GUI (Graphical User Interface) menus into VUI (Voice User Interface) dialogues, in order to be able to maintain an existing menu structure. This technique shows how to translate multi-choice lists into alternative questions and pop-up messages into actions that inform the user about something.

The novice user can let the system take charge and navigate through the menu structure by answering questions one by one:

S: What do you want to do? Make a call, go to the phone book, the settings or the helper or do you want to change domain?

U: Make a call

S: Ok, let’s see. Who do you want to call?

U: Lisa.

S: Cell phone number is available. Home number is available. Which number do you want to call?

U: Home number.

S: Ok, calling Lisa’s home number.

The experienced user does not have to follow the menu structure, instead it is possible to give all the information in one single utterance, and thus speed up the interaction:

S: What do you want to do?

U: Call Lisa’s home number, please.

S: Ok, calling Lisa’s home number.

Example article

This article just talking about how to set a voice as a ringtone. The author gave a some steps of how to deal with this function.

While navigating options for cell phone, select the voice memo or sound recorder function. Record the voice user would like to hear as a ringtone. For example, user can ask their child to say: "Dad, it's ringing!" As for user's cat or dog, it might be a bit more challenging to get them to participate in their voice ringtone experiment. Try to talk to the cat, some of them like to respond. Once recorded, the audio clip will be stored in a folder which varies depending on the phone models.

Technology of mobile phones

Nowadays, mobile phone company also hold some functionality competition, they all want get the high reputation and win the game in the intensive market, design of mobile phone spread their mind, create more useful, flexibility, creativity and full of humanity function into the mobile phones.

Voice records and apply them as ringtones in the Motorola RAZR V3. Chose the Options menu, then, choose option #1 here and you should be able to have your voce recording as a free ringtone for your RAZR.

In addition, the AD from BlackBerry company shows that “Let your BlackBerry smartphone sing when it rings! Turn voice notes into specialized ring tones, or download pre-existing ring tones.”

Apple Application

The project of this thesis is design for the Apple product, so the existing information of Apple product will give more better idea and more comparison, references during the design process.

1. Voice/Ringtone Recorder：Help record anything and make it audio file or ringtone for your iPhone.
Record unlimited time of audio and can export audio file to mail.

2. SpeakEasy Voice Recorder：This voice recorder shows so many merits:

Well spoken, which can give user a recoding studio that fits their pocket.

Ringtones, which can simply record the personalized message but less than forty seconds into ringtone.

Speak your mind, which can easily create quick reminders for things you might otherwise forget. And SpeakEasy will quickly give user recording a title and save it.

Picture this, which is a very good idea that making an important recording with picture attachment feature. Take a picture to go along with recording, or just choose one from photo library.

As the AD of this application said "SpeakEasy Voice Recorder is definitely the most polished and professional-looking option among all of the voice recorders that we reviewed, offering more advanced voice recording capabilities within a very attractive user interface."

Voicemail

Voicemail (or voice mail, voice-mail, voicemail or VMS, sometimes called message bank) is a centralized system of managing telephone messages for a large group of people, to assist users when they are not available.The term is also used more broadly, to denote any system of conveying voice message, including the answering machine.

Chronopher

The chronopher can be described as a time reminder. Especially for some specific user, such as cooking staff with housewives, doing some experiment with chemistries or anyone who need the reminder of the exactly time alarm. User can set a time ahead of time, and then adjust it for when to remind, so, user do not need to stand and wait for the end of the process.

Software of voice reminder

This is based on the calendar.

Add to the task bar clock the customization, recordable time announcements, images, calendar, forthcoming events list, daily time sheets, quick text/voice note taking and converting to tasks, appointments and to-do items that reminds about themselves in the ever-new-color scrollable window with specialized alarms and reminders. It's for those who are pressed for time. Work in comfort and let Your Voice Reminder to bother about your time and schedule. Hear the time announcements with your friend voice and see her/his pop-up image near the calendar.

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