__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 31 July 2006 14:37 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 31 July 2006 08:31 \__
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>>> I read an article in the newspaper recently about the great
>>> improvements in voice recognition softwware for Windows, the bad demo
>>> notwithstanding. Somewhat later I saw another article (probably on
>>> cola) about great improvements in the same for Linux (free version). I
>>> don't know how the two compare, however. Sorry I don't remember
>>> details.
>>
>>
>> Linux has some new speech recognition server. Being commercial, it should
>> be far better than all the smaller projects.
>
> Not sure that I really subscribe to that assumption...
>
>>
>> http://linux.sys-con.com/read/249714.htm
>> <snip />
Hadron argues that it re-uses IBM's famous work in that
domain. I can recall these tools from IBM going back to the
days when I was 14 or 15. A friend of mine had this program,
which occupied around 100 MB of disk space (quite steep at
the time) and it requires _a lot_ of training. My cousin in
Florida has been running Dragon NaturallySpeaking for
several years, but he seems to only use it as computing
vanity (i.e. when visitors arrive) rather than to get some
actual work done, which dependent upon Dragon. And he's not
that quick when it comes to typing, which pretty much tells
you that this technology has a narrow/inexistent market
(people remain curious nonetheless)... maybe a difference
can come from miniature mobile devices -- those whose
resources are not enough to make proper decisions and
interpret voice correctly. Give it another decade maybe...
assuming foldable keyboards don't see some other contender
emerge. 3-4 years ago I had this silly idea about a PDA that
binds itself to the wrist, so that you can input data with
just a single hand (freeing the other for, e.g. umbrella or
giving the finger to some troll on the other side of the
street).
Best wishes,
Roy
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