Say Goodbye To Your Mouse, Keyboard And Phone Number - Voice Control Is Finally Taking Over

Science Daily | Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey | 2003-09-12

[sourcery]

FYI

[Dr Warmoose]

Coming to a cubicle near you. Joy.

[marvlus]

What would the "F" word do? Create a slap in the face?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[freebilly]

Work will become something we do, not someplace we go.

Can't wait to have dental work by voice command....

[UncleDick]

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

[concerned about politics]

When this happens, another wall between humans and machines will fall.

When the human soul becomes part machine. Just push that computer chip propaganda as a "good thing", and the dirty deed is done. You no longer control your own life. It will be done for you.

[TheOtherOne]

What would the "F" word do? Create a slap in the face?

If so, what does, "Slap you" do?

[11th Earl of Mar]

Life at home will change, too, as operating the family entertainment center becomes a matter of pointing at it and saying "find me a good classical music station," Rabiner said.

I can't wait.

"Lawn, mow!"

[Hank Rearden]

I'm always telling my computer to go to he!!. Do you think it'll finally take my advice?

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

This will make cubicle farms even noisier than they already are. Being a fast typist, I have never been particularly interested in widespread voice technology, but I can see how it could benefit those who are arthritic, poor typists, or otherwise have problems using their hands. My father was interested in voice recognition (he disliked typing), but sadly, a stroke has left him with slurred speech. If they could make voice recognition good enough to adapt to HIS style of speech, it would be an incredible development.

[Grig]

This message has been brought to you by the same people who fortold the 'paperless society'.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

* Virtually all devices in the home and office will be network accessible and voice controllable.

Not at the library........pal!

[concerned about politics]

This message has been brought to you by the same people who fortold the 'paperless society'.

The beast of the Apocalypse is already set up in Brussels, Belgium: It is a gigantic computer that makes its own programs. "By using three entries of six digits each, each citizen of the whole world will be given a distinct credit card number." Three entries of six digits each: 666.

[CasearianDaoist]

"find me a good classical music station,"

In New Jersey?

[concerned about politics]

Officials of the Common Market believe that present chaos and disorder, due to a mysterious cause, show the need of a world money, of an international print that would possibly put an end to paper money and coins. In their place, credit notes would be exchanged by the means of a world bank's clearing house.

No member could buy or sell without first being given such a numbered imprint.

The directors of the Common Market are now convinced that world order demands, on the allegiance of peace and politics, a new world system of trade and numbering.

A single individual would have, within reach, the number of any hinabitan instrument of peace or a weapon of dictatorship.

When one of the leading heads of the Common Market was asked what would happen if someone objected to the system and refused to cooperate, he answered rather bluntly: "We would be obliged to have recourse to force to bring him to conform to the new requirements."

Henry Spaak, who was the founder of the European Common Market, and General Secretary of NATO, said, in one of his speeches:
"We don't want another committee, we already have enough of them. What we want is a man of such stature that he be capable to gain the allegiance of peace and politics to pull us out of the economic chaos into which we are sinking. Send us this man, and, be he god or demon, we will welcome him."

[concerned about politics]

"shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, to receive a mark on their right hands, or on their foreheads, and that none might buy or sell, unless he carried this mark, which was the beast's name, or the number that stands for his name. Here is wisdom. He that has understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred and sixty-six."
(Apoc. 13:16-18)

[CIB-173RDABN]

I will predict this is one of those things that we can do, but few will want it, outside some very specialized areas.

Understanding human speech can be difficult for humans, but how will a machine handle accents, or illerates?

I don't know for a fact, but I suspect a lot of human communication is as much in the context of what is said, and the tone of voice. Will the humans have to adopt a neutral voice to speak to a computer?

Perhaps in your own home, or office, a machine that can respond to a voice, "lights on" or "lights off", but how will the machine know if the command shows up in a normal conversation?

Then there is the noise factor. Occassionally someone will begin listening to their voice mail over a speakerphone. It is annoying, having everyone in the office giving their computer vocal commands would also be annoying.

Last, when you are surfing using a mouse, unless someone is looking at your screen they do not know what your are doing (unless you work for a company with spy software, in which case, sorry). But what if you had to give the command verbally - "Computer, FreeRepublic".

Computers did not come with a mouse when they first began to appear on desktops. Once one was invented, everyone saw the benefit of it, and it became standard. I do not see the same thing happening to voice commands.

But I could be wrong.

[concerned about politics]

Understanding human speech can be difficult for humans, but how will a machine handle accents, or illerates?

Voice recognition software has been around for quite a while. It asks you to read a couple of writings, and your accent, or individual voice, will be programmed into it's memory.
To close down our computers, we just say the command "go to sleep."