Well, some of it is already there, and has been since before Voice Over, before OSX and possibly even before Steve Jobs was kicked out by the board. Macintoshes have had a speech recognition system. It does not work as flexibly as Siri, but you can have it understand several hundred commands per an application and click on buttons automatically. And yes, there is the ability to name your computer there. The question really is how much more work is needed to understand more dialects and become less rigid in the clauses allowed. I think the Macintosh Voice Regognition is based on the entire phrase while Siri appears to parse out the individual words and then do pattern matching on possible phrases. The other significant thing about Siri is its ability to maintain context. So, if it just fave you restaurants in Farmville, Va and you say how about in Roanoke it will reuse the previous category to run the query. and most of the voices on Tiger and Leopard except Alex came into existence on the Macintosh at the same time as Voice Recognition. On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Yes! If this happens, giving the computer a name would be a nice feature. I > could imagine it being in system preferences. > That way, if folks weren't creative, they could just say computer, but if we > had a name in mind, we could set that up. I > think that should even be an option for the IOS version, but maybe it just > isn't practical. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Red.Falcon > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Seri on the Mac? > > Well Star Trek here we come! > Just do not say eject the core! > So would people like the capability to name there Mac or just stick to > computer! > I like the idea to say! > Thor send email to Fred Blogs execute! > Colin > > On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:23, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Well you have guessed it, it will be part of Mac OS x 10.8 (Lynx) :) >> >> Well I would not be surprised if Apple did licence more Nuance speech >> to text stuff for the Mac, and perhaps some built in OCR so we can >> read graphics and DVD menus just like JAWS 13 >> >> Let's hope VO gets a complete rewrite on the Mac though, the buffering is a >> joke. >> >> Chris >> On 24 Oct 2011, at 10:59, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >> >>> Hey All, >>> >>> What do you all reckon about having Seri on the Mac? I myself would love it. >>> >>> Just imagine, rather than typing, dictating e-mails and more! >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
