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Summary: Not ready for prime-time
Review: I got an inVoca remote control as a gift. I have three main problems with it:1) In many cases you find yourself yelling the voice command 2, 3 times till it recognizes it. Some words are simply impossible like "Fox". Others like "turn on", "turn off" are too similar for
it to react accordingly. 2) Once it does recognize a verbal command, it is very slow in terms of processing it (especially if you compare with the normal punching-the-button time). 3) Once I was sick of yelling at it, I decided to use it just as a normal universal remote. Then I got really sad, most of the useful buttons are tucked inside the unit. You have to slide out an auxiliary internal unit. However, the unit that is bulky to
start with, becomes too cumbersome since you end up holding a 15" remote. On the bright side, there is one aspect that I did like a lot: As I said, one potential great thing about it (that does not have anything to do with the voice interface) is the fact that it can learn high level commands -- macros -- which allows one to do a bunch of low level commands with a single button (like switch the TV tunner to an aux input, turn on the VCR, and start playing it). Actually, you can potentially associate this task with a voice command (assuming you can make it recognize the command). In one word, seems to me someone rushed this unit to the market just to release it in time for the Holidays. However, it needs a bit more of engineering to make it more convenient to use.
Rating: 
Summary: Invoca Perfect
Review: The Invoca will work 100% as advertised. The problem is that in order to get it working perfectly, I had to use some techniques
I only learned through experimentation. These things are not in
the manual.
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