“To speech recognition is the way of the future. To imagine a world where you can simply capture devices, write him the males and messages to friends, and receive your fingers from the syndrome site carpal tunnel syndrome. Unfortunately, it’s not perfect. Obviously, the paragraph above was “written” using speech recognition, and clearly either I, or the software, has a ways to go. It’s not even clear what I was trying to say, which was: “Speech recognition is the wave of the future. Imagine a world where you can simply talk to devices, write emails or messages to friends, and relieve your fingers from carpal tunnel syndrome”. Read the article at ExtremeTech.
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“Open the friggin pod bay doors, HAL!!!”
“Are you sure you want to eject the CD tray?”
Another brilliantly unready technology that people will obsess over until it actually works…
Actually reseach speech recognition systems (i.e. not commerical products) is damn good nowadays at least within some areas.
Personally I think it is cooler with speech synthesis, there is a french text-to-speech system (I think it is still in research only) that produces damn good french. When prosody modelling really gets incorperated in future text-to-speech systems we can except really good and natural speech.
Has anyone tried tellme (information 1800 number, movies, sports, that type of thing)? the software they use isn’t too bad, other than speaking a little louder than I do normally I don’t have to adjust at all when I call it.
Speech recognition will suck until computers get smarter. Short (unclear) commands like ‘buy the newspaper’ can’t be used if the computer doesn’t comprehend that it needs to know what newspaper you like and where it should buy it. I’m not ready to read an essay to the computer just to do something useful.
What am I (hard of hearing) and the rest of my friends (mostly Deaf) supposed to do when this stuff becomes standard?
I don’t think even when voice recognition goes standard that text interfaces will disapear completely. Text is just so easy to implement that there’d be no reason not to do it. At least I hope so, a friend of mine’s parents are deaf and his dad really loves computers so I’d hate to see a world where he couldn’t use one.