Rick Funderburg wrote:
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Perhaps speech recognition may be the answer
some day but I don't see it now.
Is there any other alternative to voice to replace
the keyboard?
Speech recognition should get somewhat better, but there are limitations
when grabbing samples of air vibrations. Humans compensate for this by
analyzing the context, which is something that is very hard for
computers to do. I assume that one could get much better accuracy by
implanting small sensors into the muscles that are involved in speech.
I have had a similar thought for a version of sign language using some
sort of glove. These ideas may help until a direct-to-brain interface
is working.
Ever hear of VoiceType(R)? It is speech recognition software that came with OS/2 Warp 4.
It was excellent in that you could navigate the computer and write entire documents
without ever touching the keyboard. It was also trainable - if it didn't know a word, then
you could teach it. The drawback was it took a good deal of memory and some processing
power, but if used today on faster machines, You'd hardly notice the resources it used.
Memory is getting smaller (physically) and faster as well, so large memory and storage
should not be an issue in embedded systems as it once was. Note that by comparison to
today's application standards, VoiceType(R) took hardly any memory or storage at all.
PGA
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