Passive Scheduling

We have all heard about the advancements in home technology, so here's a new one:

Throughout one's home there are microphones that are connected to your home's central computer.These microphones record during most of the day and at night (or at whatever time there is likely to be little talking) goes through and finds key words (go, appointment, meeting, practice, party, the days of the week, etc.) and stores 15 second increments around these key words and occasionally emails the primary household manager with the recorded reminders about things that either have been scheduled or need to be scheduled.

Most features (stored increment time, recognized words, resident's voice patterns) would be customizable, so as not to record your guests' chatter, or the TV, or if you find that the default recording time cuts off in the middle of the important phrase.

As you scheduled events based on the recordings (i.e. I need a doctor's appointment, I have practice on Friday, Cheryl invited us to a party) the event would be forwarded to your scheduling program, a ticker along the border of your TV, or even a reader board by the door.

Of course this would make it harder to claim you forgot something. Maybe we’d just come up with better excuses though.

Obviously this would mean you are purposefully recording most of your own conversations so there would probably want to be some way to turn the recording off, maybe a safety keyword that could temporarily shut off the microphones and another one to turn it back on.