Video Listnr Wants to be 'Your Listening Assistant' (Video) 45
Tim: Satoshi, what is listnr?
Satoshi Yanagisawa: Well, it’s basically what you call the intelligent microphone. It’s has the capability to be connected to Wi-Fi then it can be capturing all the sound resources based on surrounding environment, then automatically uploading to the cloud server then into there and analyzing what’s happening on. So it can be used as not only a speaker but also a communication device.
Tim: What are some samples of sounds that it can recognize?
Satoshi: Well, it’s basically it may be used in these methods, they can use it like a baby monitor for instance, like a baby starting crying then checking about in the background environment if very quiet, there may be babies or only are something like very quiet circumstances. So there is a cloud analyzing system basically just detecting about the current condition then indicating to the specific smartphone or any other smart devices. This is kind of a new way of communication not only based on the voice and sound, but also just more deeper part of communication.
Tim: To analyze things like whether a baby is happy what is the it sounds like there is some artificial intelligence you need to do that?
Satoshi: Well, I think we basically, we have in terms of a sound library which is provided by a proprietary company based in Japan. They have the fund of knowledge about the capability to detect the analyzing from the pitches, voice, key and tone, then what can be given as about the most certain, more accurate type of emotional feedbacking.
Tim: Now you can also identify much simpler things like a snapping finger?
Satoshi: Yeah, yes, definitely because if we can use these methods in terms of like communicating with the other devices, you can just snap the finger, clapping the hand, or tapping the floor, whatever, because we also have a voice recognition function. So we can connect to the other connected devices through the Wi-Fi. I pointed like snapping a finger, you can turn on and off in the lighting devices as well as if you have thermostat which it can be connected in Wi-Fi, you can control your voice.
Tim: I see it’s got a red LED that blinks in here, what does the LED indicate?
Satoshi: Well it’s a basically we can get like a tone of a different type of the information on there, it’s completely depending on your setting actually, well, sometime they want to give in like your emotional feelings as well as some – it’s a voice detection, voice recognition giving like a same different use, a certain use given a certain color pointed like that.
Tim: Okay. This is a crowd funded project?
Satoshi: Yes, this is basically we’re very keen to know about how much real market reaction from there, because we believe this product has the real potential and before we want to go into real production we really want to know about some stuff, so luckily we’re just kicking off in Kickstarter from today at the first day on the session of 2015, so hopefully coming on to the achieving a goal shortly.
Tim: What is it intended to cost?
Satoshi: Sorry about that.
Tim: What is the MSRP?
Satoshi: Well it’s basically the way our goal in Kickstarter is $50,000.
Tim: What will it cost to buy?
Satoshi: So retail price is $99, it’s a quite nice surprise in the price I think.
Tim: Okay. If you have more than one do they co-operate, can they do things like imaging and sort of figure out where the sound is coming from?
Satoshi: Well, I think we can do it in our future projects, I think, but now we’re more focusing on the gaining up more accuracy, okay, as now we have in a point of averagely 85% of accurate about what’s happening on as based on to the environment, but also we do some links together other second devices third device I mean just third listener, fourth listener try to catching up more perfectly for instance, we can do it another further project I think.
Tim: Okay. If someone wants to develop a new application that uses this hardware?
Satoshi: Well, it’s basically our product is all the software based on technology that we will provide as an open API, so you can do develop and whatever you want to more specific function or more specific customization you can making a best goal function on to your perfectly demanding in certain environment and requirement I think.
Tim: Having an open API is a great start.
Satoshi: Yeah. Okay, many of a company try to be open and luckily a couple like home appliance company given like a free API, so it’s good to link together to making like brand new type in our communication platform through I was talking about more social networking I think.
Tim: Okay. And this is the first – the first project from this team, is that correct?
Satoshi: Yes, actually we have some our partner backing up company as well as you know the other guys who has a tons of knowledge and capability, but from this team this is kind of brand new project, this is the first occasion to start the Kickstarter with a cutting edge technology based on to making like a nicely designed stuff as well.
Tim: The team is based in Tokyo?
Satoshi: Yes, it’s basically multi-disciplinary guys are coming on, but we based on Tokyo, more specifically at Akihabara where there is a center of electrical engineering.
Tim: I think lot of people would like to go visit there.
Satoshi: Yeah, definitely, definitely.
Tim: Give one piece of advice to people who want to go visit.
Satoshi: Well
Tim: And see some cool electronics.
Satoshi: Yeah, it’s a basically now Akihabara one of the centers for the hardware design kind of hardware company where more specifically hardware startup company because there is an I think biggest in hardware incubating office as well as manufacturing place in Japan, so if you who it is very interesting about to go even in the world who the particularly have the interest about to do something starting up company or hardware stuff it’s better to come in to Akihabara.
Tim: Did your team use that kind of incubator setting?
Satoshi: Yeah, definitely this is first achievement of the incubation center to using like try to be in achievement such a huge goal, so this is the first step for the coming on set to introducing about our technology as well as our point of view of the goal to the worldwide.
Better name: the Eavesdropr (Score:5, Insightful)
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No no NSAFBICIAr or short for SNOOPr or SNEAKr
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FTFA: "claims it is able to tell whether a baby it hears is laughing, crying, gurgling or trying to talk".
Any parent who wants to (a) keep their sanity and (b) get some sleep and (c) not be charged with infanticide already knows how to do this ... literally in their sleep.
Now, if this thing could change the diaper at 2am they might be on to something. Until then, I think not.
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HELLO THIS IS THE YIPPPPEEEE guy (rather his impersonation),
yipppppppppppppppeeeeeee to slashdot team, making HTML5 video!
It auto-plays. It is the devil.
Huge Domains (Score:2, Informative)
I had a domain I was sloppy with and got scooped up by Huge Domains after my fuck up. They had it for like 5+ years and I offered to buy it from them for $500 every once in a while. The last offer I made for $500 was a few months before they dropped the domain and I got it back (I originally reg it in 2001) So instead of taking the $500 they got nothing.
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It's amazing that this hasn't been stopped. I understand having an "idiot tax" on late renewals, you screwed up so you should pay a late fee, but allowing an entire business model based around hijacking lapsed domains is crazy.
Imagine if that happened with other areas of our lives. You're a day late paying your rent, someone can jump in and pay it first and take your office. Late renewing your business licence and someone can pay the fee and take your business name out from under you. One day late paying yo
Listnr (Score:1)
Where did all the hating for 'e' come from?
Tumblr... Flickr... now this.
Maybe they should have sourced for funds on Kickstartr.
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Maybe because flickr and tumblr are easier to search in google than flicker and tumbler. It also sounds hip (or hipsterish :)).
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Where did all the hating for 'e' come from?
Tumblr... Flickr... now this.
When you have no online presence, creating a nonsense word makes it easier for you to quickly reach the top listed search result.
For example, "Listener" is a band, a magazine, a TV show, and a Javascript function. You have to rise above all of them before you "exist". Simply drop a couple of E's (untz untz untz) and suddenly you become the top result. I believe it's also harder to protect your trademark if it's a generic word.
However, if you change the spelling of your company too far (eg, "Listiner") and p
Obligatory (Score:3)
Simpsons did it! [wikia.com]
From Japan (Score:1)
Where they code websites like it's 1999. They are culturally incapable of developing advanced software. This will fail.
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Japan puts all their research points in robots and mechas. Do you think our web 2.0 Beta websites will protect us from the inevitable onslaught?
What the hell, Slashdot? (Score:3)
Is anyone else getting the page I'm getting? A giant black box autoplaying - autoplaying! - the interview (but audio only on Firefox), then the summary, and then a Flash video of the same thing?
Autoplaying makes it look like you don't care that the user might want to make their own choice as to if or when he watches the video (or that you think they're incapable of making the video play by choice). Doubling it up just makes you look like you don't know what you're doing.
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Yes. But I'm getting video too in the first box; not just audio.
Autoplaying makes it look like you don't care that the user might want to make their own choice as to if or when he watches the video (or that you think they're incapable of making the video play by choice). Doubling it up just makes you look like you don't know what you're doing.
Its both. They don't care what the user wants AND they don't know what they are doing? (Have you not seen beta?)
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You allow ANYTHING to autoplay?
Why?
Noscript. Flashblock. something... you should have solved the autoplay shit problem years ago.
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You allow ANYTHING to autoplay?
Why?
I am running Flashblock, thank you very much. That covers most cases. This is not one of them.
you should have solved the autoplay shit problem years ago.
No, I shouldn't have to.
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FUCK THIS TFUCK THIS FUCK THIS. Firefox doesn't even show me which fucking tab is playing it. FUCK OFF Autoplay.
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For a long time I've had the ability to turn off ads for /. I left them on because I didn't mind helping them pay their bills. I could just ignore it if I wanted, or I'd occasionally click on some interesting bit of geekery.
Today an ad started auto-playing a vid, with audio. I've turned off the ads now.
I should probably go back to usenet. Threaded readers that work.
Autoplaying video (Score:5, Insightful)
Fuck off.
And this isn't even on Beta
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Noscript just served up a page with a big hole in it.
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This sucks. No more Slashdot from the office for me.
Prior Art (Score:1)
I think there's some prior art. [youtube.com]
sure it could (Score:2)
So the Echo? (Score:2)
Amazon Echo [amazon.com]
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I think the Echo looks interesting and look forward to trying it out when I reach the front of the queue. But, absent some hacks, there's no indication it will ever have an open API.
Apple make money from a nice margin on everything they make. Google make money from targeted advertising. Amazon really need to keep you in the ecosystem more than the others because the hardware doesn't have the same profit margin as Apple, and they're not as well places as Google to monetize your personal info. Amazon need you
Well, it’s basically (Score:1)
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I was wondering when someone was going to mention the clapper. Are the Listnr guys/gals just too young to remember this? It's the freaking clapper!
God dammit, indeed. (Score:1)
Secretary: "Here's another data stream to record!". (Throws spec sheet in the programmer's inbox.)
NSA Programmer (Looks at 3 foot high inbox.). God dammit.