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Wed, April 18, 2012 in General
Our friends at Whiteman Technology are launching the Delta DVR at DEMO Spring 2012 in Silicon Valley tomorrow. It’s one of the first commercial DVRs based on Windows 7 Embedded running Media Center, and it includes the Amulet Voice Remote as standard.
It’s a very nicely designed piece of equipment, and has some impressive capabilities: Six [...]
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Tue, April 10, 2012 in General
Amulet users often ask us for additional voice commands to check the weather, perform unit conversion, read news headlines, and so on.
While we hope to incorporate some of these in a future software release, you can do a surprising amount right now using Amulet’s custom command capability, especially when you combine it with some VBScript.
To [...]
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Fri, March 30, 2012 in General
From time to time, we get enquiries asking whether the Amulet Voice Remote will work on an Apple Macintosh.
We designed the Amulet for use with a PC — primarily for Windows Media Center — and nobody in the company uses a Mac, so this wasn’t a use we had forseen. Since the Amulet dongle appears [...]
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Tue, November 8, 2011 in General
If you’ve been following the Amulet beta software releases, you probably already know that Amulet V3.0 includes full voice support for the popular My Movies 4 plug-in for Media Center.
For everyone else, here’s a preview video showing how well the voice integration works:
If you’re not familiar with My Movies, it’s one of the nicest, most [...]
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Tue, October 11, 2011 in General
As some of you know, we’ve been working on moving Amulet’s voice recognition technology into the cloud.
If you’re an existing Amulet Voice Remote user, you’ll know that Amulet’s voice recognition takes place on your home theatre PC. While this works well for Media Center users, it’s not a good fit for the typical settop box [...]
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Tue, June 21, 2011 in General
As many of you might know, TheGreenButton.com was the online forum for Media Center users to discuss everything to do with our favorite platform. Hugely active, it had a wide spectrum of members, from Media Center experts to brand new novices, all happy to share their knowledge. Many Microsoft staff also helped out with advance [...]
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Mon, April 11, 2011 in General
The Amulet blog has been pretty quiet for the past month or two, as we focus on completing the next release of Amulet software. Thanks to all the external Ceton and My Movies beta testers who have been helping us with this.
The new release should be generally available soon, but in the meantime, I thought [...]
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Mon, November 15, 2010 in General & Reviews
VoxCommando, the popular independent voice control software, now supports the Amulet Voice Remote, allowing Amulet to be used with media applications such as XBMC, iTunes, MediaMonkey, MediaPortal, and EventGhost.
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Sun, November 7, 2010 in General
Thankfully, there is a straightforward workaround: unplug the network cable, reset the unit, go into the network settings on the DMA and manually configure them, setting the DNS server entry to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0. This prevents the extender beginning the connection attempt and circumvents the problem.
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Fri, September 24, 2010 in General
A key component in our software for Windows Media Center is the Amulet Background Plugin. It’s loaded by Media Center when it starts, and is then continually ready to receive voice commands, independent of what else is happening in Media Center.
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