Speak With Me
For those who think they have a relationship with their cars, here's some bad news .. now you may have to have real conversations with your car! TechCrunch has this interesting review of a product by a company called Speak With Me, that lets you control your car via speech. If the quality of speech recognition is anywhere close to the claims, this is one hell of a product.
From the article ...
For the demo, Ajay controlled his stereo system verbally, changing songs, picking tracks, controlling volume, etc. The commands he used to do this were in absolutely plain English and varied considerably in structure. For instance, Ajay at one time said “go to track 3″. Another time he said “play for me another one bites the dust”. Later, “I would like to hear wonderful tonight by eric clapton. “louder”. “quieter”.