Mobile phone voice recognition gets famous

Written by: Rebecca Milner on January 20, 2008 at 2:27 pm | In DIGITAL LIFE | 2 Comments

You may not have the perfect doe eyes of Ayumi Hamasaki, but you might sound like her. Advanced Media Inc.’s new application, “Koe Chieki” (“Voice Check”) for Docomo mobile phones uses voice recognition software to tell users which famous person, out of 500 (including actors, pop idols, and anime characters), that their voice most resembles.

And as if that weren’t cool enough, there’s also “Mimic Check” that can rate your ability to mimic said celebrities (definitely worth giving a go before busting out your latest impersonation at your next goukan) and “Joke Check” to tell you what kind of jokes your voice is best suited for telling.

There’s still more: “Love Check” uses voices to measure the compatibility between two people, either that potential love interest that you just finished talking to or your latest celebrity crush.

Thank you Advanced Media for reminding us that a mobile phone can mean so much more than just talk! I am so thinking of switching to Docomo.

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