Incidentally, Intel gave away the code for its lip reading software in 2003 and attempts to integrate facial speech and sound had been made then,tough I don't know of any on the market (haven't looked). Currently, if I say something like 'Islamic banking still leaves its poor poor' I get something Orn would ban me for. It's the non- technical development of ideas and writing that interests me.
On Sep 29, 10:25 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > My work with other people has usually been disappointing. It's > limited to a little university teaching and reading graduate > submissions in the main. Trying to write with other people is broadly > a disaster and I'm in need of getting my own into focus. I've been > ill with energy sapped and the exercise I need to take hasn't helped > much yet, though the new dog is a real treat when not eating my > socks. It's a bit of a new start. Quite a few people write,some very > well and This is an invitation to share and perhaps develop work > between group members. > > I've tried speech-to-text software with dismal failure over the years, > once building a monster pc with shed-loads of memory to no effect. > More recently, trying the latest stuff on university approval, I found > the stuff as hopeless and that it varied with my partial denture in or > out. This led me to the germ of an idea,which if any good I should > patent before mentioning. I video conference from a small netbook > with its own webcam and colleagues use text translation when stuck for > understanding. This now works very well, but we obviously want voice > translation to prevent repetitive stress injuries from the keyboard. > I've seen some old films (silent) with a voice over lip-reading > software - the best known are from Hitler's archive. There's a > product development possibility in this. > > I'd like to know whether this makes as instant sense to other ME > people as me. I haven't looked into this much as.it spurred me into a > sub-plot in my novel and that's what I'll be up to for a while. We > could 'write' this 'product development'. I'm partly suggesting this > for real but also as a metaphor (maybe) for more developmental writing > on our ideas generally. I won't say more at this stage.
