Scott Forman’s ShutterVoice brings your Canon DSLR a little closer to Star Trek. The Windows-only application provides a voice-control front-end to Canon’s own EOS utility, which allows remote control of many Canon DSLR functions.
Shuttervoice let’s you switch on live view, focus the camera, take a shot — in short, pretty much everything you can do with the EOS utility itself, only you can do it without lifting a finger. In the video, it looks pretty accurate, although Forman has told photographer and blogger Rob Galbraith that he’s still tweaking it to play nice with Vista.
The best part? First, you need to say "computer" to get it to listen for a command — just like Jean-Luc Picard! Second, it speaks back to you.
Mac users should be able to cobble something like this together themselves using the built-in Speech Commands, the Image Capture utility and some Applescript, but given my experience with the Mac’s speech recognition features, this is likely to leave you screaming abuse at your machine instead of issuing relaxed commands.
ShutterVoice will be available in early December for $30.
Sign up page [ShutterVoice via Rob Galbraith]
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