Program to show you who is talking during a meeting
Problem: You’re in a meeting/conference call with a bunch of people. You’re supposed to remember their names, but you don’t exactly. Is it that guy from Marketing? Bob something? And is she Susan, or Susanne?
Solution: A computer program of some sort (on phone/laptop/whatever) that will listen to your meetings, and identify on your screen who is currently talking. This will work best if it can connect to some sort of central server (Exchange?) where there’s a database of how people sound. However, I think it would be an equally interesting project even if there wasn’t that database – the program could either listen to people signing into the conference call (when they say their names, you click them off on the screen) or it could store its own database of people’s sounds. When you eventually found out who a person was, you assign a tag to them. From then on, the program will identify them when they talk. It saves you trying very much to remember their name, even if you knew it once.
My New Year’s Resolution this year was to try and better remember people’s names when I was introduced to them. Not sure if conference calls count, though.