Right, but at best you still have the contextual phonetic issues of which witch is which. Also, a keyboard won't require training to figure out what letters you meant. The new automated closed caption system from Google is going to be interesting as they refine the algorithims:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html I went to their announcement in Washington and they showed automated captions generated on a video talking inserting a SIMM card into mobile phone got captioned as Salmon card. But even so, for the blind community going from zero to something is a huge leap forward. That same untrained speech recognition, knowing Google, should start percolating into other places. At least it sounds like they are putting some solid R&D into it. Google naturally speaking anyone? CB Chris Hofstader wrote: > Actually, the latest and greatest voice recognition systems are amazingly > accurate after they have been adequately trained. "Adequate" training does > thak hundreds of hours of use and being incredibly faithful to correcting the > mistakes the software makes. Few people who can type are willing to go > through this arduous process. > > I think something like keyboards will, for long form writing, be around for a > long time but I could see the next generation of smart phones having adequate > dictation software installed for text messages and other short bits of > communication that doesn't really require seriously formal writing and a few > mistakes doesn't really matter. > > Voice recognition without training, however, is another holy grail that the > serious research types need to solve. > > cdh > On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > >> I dunno. As long as the primary form of stored and forwarded >> communication is written text, the fastest way to generate that text is >> either going to be strong native speech recognition or a physical >> interface that makes use of all 10 fingers, if possible. Even though >> voice recognition keeps progressing it still has the same limitations of >> any conversation: it breaks down in noisy environments, others can >> overhear it, accents and local dialects make it hard to comprehend and >> there is only one channel so it's hard for a device to always correctly >> separate data from commands. For these reasons I think keyboards of some >> form will be with us for a long long time. That and they are mainstream. >> Any sighted user can find letters on the keyboard and peck out some text >> without training. Speech recognition probably won't be mainstream for >> some time because of the aforementioned flaws along with the usual >> technical issues of high-overhead in software/hardware to make it work. >> >> CB >> >> Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: >> >>> The keyboard will become obsolete in the next 10-20 years; this is a >>> prediction I'm making now. It was invented in the 19th century for >>> the manual typewriter. It's going to go the way of the cathode ray >>> tube; it's primitive. Blind people either adapt or they get left >>> behind. I can't afford an Iphone and it frustrates me to no end >>> because one of my close friends (Hi, Cara!) has shown me its use over >>> Skype, and it's the most revolutionary thing I've seen come out >>> since ... talking computers? :) >>> >>> >>> Mark BurningHawk Baxter >>> >>> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >>> MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >>> My home page: >>> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >>> >>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
