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[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … 0317232804]Wow...
*This is astounding. It'll be VERY interesting to watch this develop.
Browse the web without touching the keyboard...next stop, commanding a robot similar to our Mars rovers!
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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I dunno, I've seen how well regular voice recognition works and I'd be terrified if my life depended upon it. I remember an old roomate got some free voice recognition softwre with a sound card. It was one of the better commercial packages at the time (Somthing-or-other-Dragon or something was the name). I just remember hearing him in his room saying:
"Emergency."
"Undo...Undo"
"Emmmmergency"
"Undo...Undo...UNDO"
"EmergEEEncy"
"Undo...undo"
"EEEmergencYYY"
"Undo...Undo...Undo...UNDO!!"
And so on for about 10 minutes.
Later, after he'd finally programmed the dumb thing, my other roomate anda friend were testing it out. I can't remeber what someone said but the program interpreted it as "Robber the condom." The resulting laughter caused the program to write a long paragraph of "Whom"s....
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