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Friday, June 28, 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18383.html Those Amazing Talking Computers Tim McDonald, NewsFactor Network "The best way to make computers universally usable is to get them to communicate the way people do -- by talking and listening," an IBM spokesperson told NewsFactor. The concept sounds great: Give voice commands to your computer, like ordering an obedient servant to bring you a cocktail. No more fumbling with an aging mouse or awkward trackball, no more slow typing on a keyboard. But so far, speech technology is a solid example of an idea well conceived but poorly executed. As a concept, it has been around for as long as computers have been, but it still has not come close to achieving its potential. Faced with the formidable task of enabling machines to understand humans, the technology has been slow to develop. In addition, the market has been slow to define itself -- witness the bankruptcy filings of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products and its former U.S. subsidiary, Dictaphone....
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