A small recording device records your daily conversations. Software takes the conversations, knows which words came from you, and analyzes them. It also divides them up by topic and by conversation, “The conversation that you had at 10:53 am that lasted for 15 mintues,” etc.
At the end of the day, you access and search through the conversations.
You know that you had a conversation where somebody mentioned “FILL_IN_THE_BLANK” but you can’t remember all the details. So you go to the software and search for a few of the words that you remember, and a transcript of the conversation comes up.
This would be very useful for remembering names, remembering a cool idea somebody told you about, searching for the exact words you told a spouse
Patterns that might be interesting to analyze:
1. If you are trying to stop saying, “Um” or “Like,” this device could track how you are doing, whether there’s a decreasing or increasing trend, etc.
2. What words do you most commonly use? How does this pattern change when you are talking to women? Men? Children?
What other applications can you think of? Has anybody developed anything like this? I’d love to hear what you think. Post a comment below.
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1 Matthias // Oct 23, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Wouldn’t you need the consent of the other party involved in the conversation?
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