Hello John - ---------- > IMO the speech recognition technology being developed for small form > factor telephony, and, their interrelated radio base stations, and, > interconnected voice/data wireline networks will have a longer term > impact than pen-based/slate PCs on the average consumer.
I've been watching both speech-recoginition and simple text-to-speech develop over the two decades plus that I have been interested in computers. It seems most overlook the fact that a good deal of our `speech' involves colloquialisms and eupherisms with dialect thrown in even within various regions of the USA. Johny Carson (TV late night talk show host) said he was hired, in part, because he had no regional dialect. His speech patterns are referred to as mid-western American dialect. TV news persons practice speaking in this fashion. >From the North to the South (US) people complain about the speed at which Northerners speak. What speed will be used? Nothern or Southern? I guess my question(s) would be, OK speech but which version and what language? My first text-to-speech hardware had a Swedish accent that amused my children but was extremely obvious even when using phenomes in place of the original text to attempt corrections of pronunciation. My wild-eyed guess is that futher research will combine plant life with what we now think of as computers. We will have talking plants. Since trees can live for hundreds of years we could have a tree-like plant that could remember conversations with our great grandparents and would have the advantage of a wide perspective of change/history to use to advise us in our daily lives. I know, sounds extreme but we are discussing talking rocks here right now (in reality silicon-based talking rocks). LOL Charles.Angelich DOS the Ghost in the Machine! Family And Friends wepages - Multimedia orginal stories with animation and sound, poetry, music, and photography: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf Tech pages for DOS and W31 at: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
