Use Natural Language to Find Your Tunes | Speech Technology Magazine Blog

It’s the holidays, and you know what that means: music. That’s right, dear speech-heads, there’s no better time to crank out the tunes. Personally, I like the really old school stuff I listened to as a kid on actual records, but you it’s true you can’t use speech to control your record player.

Speak With Me has released an app called Voice DJ, which the company says is the first to use natural language to help users search for music in their ipod touch, ipad, iphone.

For example, if you want to search for the song “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” you can say various commands such as “I want to listen to Santa Claus is coming to town” or “play Santa Claus is coming to town” as well as other commands, which the company says makes searching for music easier and more intuitive.

Also, if you happen to have numerous versions of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (I don’t know why you would because Bruce Springsteen’s  version is the best, but whatever) VoiceDJ will make a playlist for you of the song.

Also, you can make custom playlists using voice commands, and even use voice commands to manipulate your list to add songs. There’s also more to come in the future.

“Our new VoiceDJ app is just the first of many products based on our industry-leading Natural Language Dialog Platform that we plan to roll out in the coming years,” said Ajay Juneja, CEO and Founder of Speak With Me, Inc. in a statement, “While this first app is focused on music and entertainment, future apps will be in many different verticals, including navigation, mobile search, and video games.”

The the app is available for free in the apple store, and doesn’t require an internet connection, so I might actually give this one a shot. The free version only allows 10 commands per day, but a version that’s $1.99 allows for unlimited commands.

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