Hi Mark, I am using Dragon naturally speaking version 8 to write this message. I can also use this programme to control my computer. What I have found is that speech recognition is good when dictating but is still slow when giving commands especially during editing. For example, it is much faster moving around in a document using the keyboard as opposed to using Dragon.
I suspect we still have some way to go before we get flawless speech recognition like they show in the movies. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Sims Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The Future Of Computing? MIT has been experimenting with interactive touchscreen computing for quite some time. Just think of it no more keyboards and mice to deal with in using data input. We have speech capability with PCs but its been used so far in a limited fashion such a short dictation and cellphone handsfree and other devices that have not yet been fully utilized but will be very soon if not already. I wish Microsoft would implement voice command and response in its upcomming Windows Vista product to do most of the mundane everyday stuff like open, close windows, copy files, send e-mail ( I already have voice e-mail and video e-mail from Comcast HSI of which I haven't used myself yet but will soon ;) execute programs, record video, music etc. I have used my ATI remote control in conjuntion with the AIW 9600 to turn my computer on and off and open a few apps but that's it, but its not the same as voice command and response where the voice controls every thing the computer can run. So that there will soon be a point in time when we will in the very near future all we have to do is touch or speak the command and our PC's will do the rest. ;) Marc Sims Data Technician I Prince George's Community College >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, March 22, 2006 >>> The video on this page is rather interesting. Maybe one day we'll all be using touchscreens like this http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ Rob -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
