____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 30 September 2007 19:43 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 30 September 2007 12:04 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 September 2007 17:38 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Nokia details Linux tablet WiMAX plans
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| The Nokia N-series tablets will integrate Skype, the Rhapsody music
>>>>>>| service, and a Mozilla-based browser, Nokia has revealed. Mozilla's
>>>>>>| Gecko rendering engine -- the same used in the popular Firefox browser
>>>>>>| -- should deliver superior performance on Web 2.0 sites with lots of
>>>>>>| AJAX, Nokia suggests. Apple's iPhone, meanwhile, uses a browser built
>>>>>>| on KDE's lighter webkit rendering engine. Today, Nokia's N-series
>>>>>>| tablets use a customized browser based on Opera's rendering engine.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4366436363.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And you can install minimo and w3m. Minimo is based on the mozilla
>>>>> codebase, and works very well indeed. w3m is fine if you have a
>>>>> bluetooth keyboard.
>>>>
>>>> The next tablet from Nokia (N800 successor) is said to have a built in
>>>> QWERTY keyboard.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, so we finally get back to the clamshell of the Psion 5MX, then?
>>> Hehe - so long it took!
>>
>> The keyboard will be needed until you can get a board powerful enough to
>> cope with DragonNaturallySpeaking-quality speech recognition. IMHO.
>>
>
> How will anyone be able to use such a machine in public, though?
> Keyboards have the advantage of not needing any protocol to determine
> from what source the information is coming, whereas voice-recognition
> systems tend to assume that *all* information is aimed at it, and try
> to determine what is noise, and interpret the rest as speech.
>
> If you consider this from a Shannon information theory perspective,
> voice-recognition looks like an abysmal solution for anyone not in an
> anechoic chamber.
You could have a fallback, of course (or noise reduction). I've read a few of
Shannon's original papers, but I'm not sure how this fits the problem at hand.
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