Products
Based on our award-winning Avoca VIP™ voice interface platform family, we offer high-performance entertainment system solutions with optimized multi-modal user interfaces (voice, visual, & tactile). Our proprietary technology simplifies life for users by enabling new applications, such as voice enabled search of a music library, home automation interfaces, and A/V system control.
The Avoca VIP Music Edition&trade - with embedded Avoca VIP&trade
The Avoca VIP Music Edition is a music control system for the living room, with a magical difference - it turns your CD collection into a Digital Music Library, and provides Voice-enabled control of the Library. Touch the Avoca Music Companion™, or talk to it; this system is the fastest most entertaining way to find and play your music. The system provides:
The Music Companion™ wireless controller - more mobile, more convenient, more fun that using a rack full of CDs. The large screen Avoca MC provides a portable browsing list of your music library, by genre, artist, album, or track. By touch or by voice, it allows you to get the most out of your music investment - from anywhere around your home. There is no need for a direct line of sight to your Avoca Music Server.
The VIP Music Server - Play your CDs into the convenient CD reader on the front of this living room device. While listening, a copy is loaded into the disk storage, building your Digital Music Library. Then put your CD away. Yes, you will be able to avoid CD clutter and lost CD hassles, while enjoying your music collection more often because it is so easy to use.
Say it-Play it™ Software - "Play artist", "Display by album", "Play Genre_____", "Queue _____", and many other simple, intuitive voice commands allows users to search and play a digital music collection, including direct immediate selection of a specific track.
Enjoy the freedom to move around your home - The voice or touch interface, on the Avoca wireless portable device, allows a fantastic sense of freedom to roam, relax, search and select from your music collection.
Speaker Independent - You, your friends, and your family can use the system because it is based on the latest phonetic recognition algorithms, tested and proven in other applications, such as in-vehicle navigation, and telephone name dialing.
Fast, fast music retrieval - Faster than buttons, thumbwheel, or finding the physical CD with the music you want to hear.
Suggested Retail Price $3990 US
The Avoca VIP Control Edition&trade - with embedded Avoca VIP&trade
This system includes Avoca's Media Control Platform™ technology, designed into a base station and remote handheld devices for flexible control of digital media, and media room lights/automation. Avoca Custom Design services are necessary to plan and install the Custom Edition. The system provides:
Speak or touch interface to browse, control and select content, on your digital media system, throughout your home, using an Avoca remote control or in wall touch panels via a link to an Avoca Base Station.
Multiple listeners in multiple zones can be listening to their own choice of music. The Avoca system automatically creates acoustically-enabled metadata files to support the "voice" side of the user interface.
Media Room Automation - Set up the home theatre or music source as you wish, when you wish, with a simple set of voice commands - from anywhere in your home.
Custom Design - Voice-enabling the Digital Home
For Custom Designers, our music remote & portable technology is a great way to give users more enjoyment out of their digital music collections. Various operating environments can be supported by Avoca, such as Win/XP, Mac, and Pocket PC. Linux or proprietary systems can be supported by technical collaborations to meet the needs of a specific product and network environment.
Capabilities and features include:
Media Control Platform ™ (MCP) Software API - The voice-enabled UI platform for Product Designers, providing a versatile way to integrate your applications in a voice-enabled way, allowing you to give your customers the most intuitive user interfaces, with quick time to market.
Remote Control of your Media Center - If you have your music in a Windows Media Player or iTunes™ (PC or Mac) environment, your collection can be set up for rapid, easy-to-use remote control via a handheld device.