Kill the Cable

Using an iPhone, some backend AT&T servers for quick voice recognition and a networked TV an spokesperson was able to bring up various TV shows by voice command alone (checkout the video). The fact that the two shows he searched for were “Dora the Explorer” and “Project Runway” does take a bit of the sheen off of demo, but other than that it looked fairly awesome.

I give it about a month before an enterprising developer gets a homebrew system working utilizing Google Voice an Arudino board and an IR transmitter.

In the meantime, you can use the official Remote application from Apple to control your AppleTV and iTunes or if you’re running XBMC, try the iPhone XBMC Remote.

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