Using Voice Instructions
SurfBoard may be used “hands-free” to control your TV and, Cable or Satellite box without lifting a finger! SurfBoard comes factory pre-trained with some common voice commands that you can use right out of the box. To activate these voice commands, press [LISTEN].SurfBoard will respond with "Listen On." The blue KEYWORD indicator will illuminate. To avoid responding to ordinary conversation, the SurfBoard must hear a keyword before it can respond to a voice command. The default keyword is "Surfboard."
After hearing the keyword "surfboard," the remote control will respond with a bleep and your TV will mute. The green COMMAND indicator will turn on for 3 seconds while it waits to hear one of the following voice commands:
- POWER
- CHANNEL UP
- CHANNEL DOWN
- PREVIOUS
- FAVORITE.
If the SurfBoard does not hear one of these commands within 3 seconds, it will go back to listening for the keyword "surfboard." To learn how to set up the SurfBoard to respond with your personal commands, or a different keyword, please refer to the User's Guide.
The out-of-box voice recognition in the Surfboard has been designed to provide a high degree of recognition accuracy with the majority of men's and women's voices throughout the United States. However some users may have an accent or tonal quality that will not work as well with the pre-trained out-of-box voice commands. If you experience difficulties in having the Surfboard recognize your voice, we recommend you train your SurfBoard with your own voice commands as described on page 14 of the Users Guide.
To maximize the recognition accuracy and tap the full flexibility of your SurfBoard's voice recognition technology, you should program your own customized voice commands. For example you can program all your favorite channels by name.
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Hands Free Operation
The SurfBoard will listen for voice commands for 10 minutes. When the SurfBoard hears a voice command it understands, it will restart the timer.
To operate completely hand's free, you can activate the sound detector by pressing [HELP]-[6]-[2] . When the blue light times out, clap twice to re-awaken the remote. The sound detector is only active if listening was on and it timed out.
You can increase the listen time by pressing [HELP]-[6]-[3]. Press [3] until you hear the time period you want to use.
Learning from another remote
Surfboard's interactive learning capability allows you to customize and enhance your surfing experience to include auxiliary devices such as DVDs, VCRs or home theater boxes.
For example, if you are using a home theater box, you can learn its volume up, volume down and mute buttons onto the SurfBoard's volume and mute buttons.
To enter the learning mode, press [HELP]-[3].
The SurfBoard is designed to simplify the things people do most frequently with a remote control such as channel surf. However, if you want to use your SurfBoard to operate a VCR or DVD player, you can learn the additional buttons you need onto the SurfBoard's shifted buttons.
Pressing the [SHIFT] button activates the "secondary"
functions (shown in grey on the remote control) for the next keystroke. Pressing and holding the
[SHIFT] button locks the shifted buttons. They will unlock automatically after 30 seconds of inactivity or when [SHIFT] is pressed again.
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