ShutterVoice, control your DSLR camera by voice.
As a photographer you always try to learn new things and try to find different and better results for the same problem or want to improve you skill in photography area. So, you have a day off and you want to practice a little at home or in you studio. You set your camera and your lights, but you need a subject to take a photograph of. Sometimes is hard to find a subject wiling to loose time just to be you guinea pig, so the best subject which is always willing to be photographed “in the name of evolution” is you. But all the time you find yourself running to you camera to see results or change settings.
That’s why developer Scott Forman started the creation of ShutterVoice software and was originally created to ease the process of shooting lighting tests with himself as the subject, This enables you to control the Canon EOS Utility software ( that comes with your DSLR camera ) with spoken commands. This is programmed to be out on the market by the end of the next month.
Without touching the keyboard, ShutterVoice allows for broad control of EOS Utility, it’s possible to use command phrases that adjust aperture, shutter speed, ISO, set focus distance (autofocus in Live View is possible too, though with the EOS 50D and EOS 5D Mark II only), rotate pictures and enable the control of EV compensation, color temperature, white balance and more, shown in the screenshot and video bellow:
But there are a few things that ShutterVoice doesn’t handle, but the list is comparatively short. Says Forman: “The ones it can’t [control] are the menu functions and the White Balance settings on the Live View screen itself. It can, however, control the White Balance through the main EOS window.”
ShutterVoice is compatible with EOS Utility 2.4 through 2.5.1. At this point in its development, says Forman, the program is working well in Windows XP, but additional work is required to get it running smoothly in Windows Vista (a Mac version isn’t planned). Early feedback from photographers has led Forman to settle on a single 30$ version of the program, rather than separate standard and pro releases.
If you wish to be a beta tester go to shuttervoice.com and can register for a 30 days free trial.
Cool software. I think I am going to test it as well and start giving orders to my new 50D
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bai nu mai stiu astia ce sa inventeze.. prea tare oricum
@ Sirius: Nice purchase. Have fun with it
@ Dana: Pai sa stii. Tot felul de minunatii =)
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