Skype to partner with Big Brother?
Privacy Advocates are going to love this one. Skype is justy named as a possible partner for voice recognition software that listens in to your VOIP calls and displays ads relative to the words you say.
New service eavesdrops on Internet calls
Software monitors calls, displays computer ads based on subjects spoken
NEW YORK - A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers’ computer screens based on what’s being talked about.
For instance, a caller talking about going for dinner might see ads to local restaurants and restaurant review sites, while someone pondering whether to buy a new computer might see ads for computer stores. Relevant unsponsored links also appear.
Will the next step be trying to eliminate the search engines like Google by letting you say a word into your computer and have relevant websites popup based on what you said?
It’s coming. Likely Google will beat others to the punch on it though. They are in a great postion to deliver results from speech recognition. In 1998 I had a coder make me an application to do just exactly that.
We created a database of words and associated those words with urls. Whenever I would say a specific word, my computer would tap the online database and go to the correct url.
So if we were able to do this crude system in 1998, then surely Google has this coming out for us soon with all the improvements to speech recognition software.
