> In a message dated 10/5/98 3:22:45 PM PDT, writes: > > << Not to beat a dead horse or anything.. but when you say > that word, make sure you jerk your body a little and pronounce > it the way the Webster's would say to pronounce "wince". >> > > LOL. We do call it wince here, Rudy. But you didn't answer my question about > Dragon... True.. true... Well, there's a couple big problems with bringing real voice recognition to wince machines. First - most (if not all) wince processors are optimized toward power consumption over speed. Even the fabulous StrongArm isn't really capable of the kind of performance the El-Cheapo desktops can do these days. Performance will improve - greatly over the next few years - but probably not fast enough for our tastes. The second problem is that wince (ouch!) machines aren't binary compatable. So even though they claim to have some huge market share, wince machines can't exploit that market effectively by sharing software titles. And should a byte code machine magically appear that all wince devices _can_ execute the same code ... well, you just ate up all your processing power interpreting silly little instructions - nothing left for your speech recognition. I'm waiting for the day when one of the operating systems producers finally says, "Okay, we're going to do it. The machine of the star trek universe is going to appear in this reality," and sells a computer without a keyboard. It'll happen. Someday. Whether it'll sell... well.. that's a question for the marketing gurus out there. Rudy -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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