My son has a google voice activated thing on his desk. Could I say "ok google add 5 oz avocado to?

Old_Cat_Lady

Could these voice devices be tied to MFP? It would be so easy to say:
Ok google, 4 oz of orange juice breakfast. I think Alexa and siri are others similar.

cmriverside

Try it! I don't see it working all that well with MFP, when there are ninetyseveneleven entries for OJ.

I love Siri, though. She's awesome. Windows has Contana.

JeepHair77

I am a big huge fan of ok google and it's 1000% better than Siri, but no, I haven't had any luck getting it to add to my MFP diary.

joinn68

OP you should suggest that to MFP developers. It would be great to be able to voice-add food to diary. (and I don't even own one of these assistant things)

nicholerohrer

If you want voice activated fitness tracking, they're coming out with a new health/fitness app called Evolve that lets you do that. It's in the beta stages for iPhone right now I think, but if you download it and then sign up for the wait list, they'll email you a code within a week or so. I know, I know, its not MFP... but it's an option if you really want that. I downloaded it and played around with it for a day or so, but... well, I'm here. Haha. I'm a creature of habit.

kshama2001

Well you could voice search the USDA database and put the appropriate entry into MFP. There are just WAY too many user-created entries in the MFP database to make searching that directly a viable option.

bpetrosky

TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »

Could these voice devices be tied to MFP? It would be so easy to say:
Ok google, 4 oz of orange juice breakfast. I think Alexa and siri are others similar.

Developers are adding "skills" (i.e. automated tasks) to voice commands for the Amazon and Google devices all the time. MFP's developers might be looking at it already, but they have to weigh the cost of development and support against the number of people who might use these devices now.

The challenge would be how to select an accurate item in the database from a voice search. Just doing a text search on "Avocado" yields tons of garbage entries, doing it by voice without a screen to verify would probably get an inaccurate entry.

Simple commands like "repeat my lunch from last tuesday" would probably be pretty easy to do.

lemurcat12

If you could tie it to your saved foods, that would be cool.

(I have yet to use any voice commands and don't want to, but I still see the value in that.)