Alex Feinman wrote: > > Well, its an interesting idea, but it poses some serious problems; > > > > One, for Dragon Naturally Speaking, they'd have to talk directly into the > > microphone at a distance of about 6 inches, and the background noise would > > have to be kept at a minimum; Also, you'd need to lead a different 'speech > > pack' for each language, as languages have differing vowel sounds and > > consonants from ours that would be misrecognised. > > I've been wondering about that. Do they sell mini-parabolic mics, or > perhaps mini-shotguns? Something with *good* directionality. My idea > is to attach one of these to, say, a finger, and then just point the > mic at whatever I want to hear - your mouth, or whatever. Might also > work for the crowded-cocktail-party effect. > can you imagine the stir this would be if if every time you talked to someone you pulled out a big black thing that looks like an alien ray gun? You have mass hysteria every time you asked where the toilet was! > > The problem I see for a mult-translator is you have to set it to the > language they're talking in before they start speaking. Heck, even a > human has a hard time figuring out what language you're speaking, if > you tend to switch between 3 or 4 languages. Yeah, and languages like Italian, Spanish and Portuguese are very hard for an untrained ear to tell apart. Romance and indo-euopean languages sound too much alike for most program to discriminate. > > > .Now, the reverse way, where it translates *your* words, perhaps puts them on > > a little Matrix Orbital LCD, sounds actually quite usable. The mike is close > > enough, it would be trained to your voice, and you could either have > > translation software or pipe the text through Babelfish if you have a net > > connection. > > It might be nice to have the running text of everything I say all of > the time. Then again...maybe not. ;-) I suppose it gives "Read my lips" new meaning? -- -LX "...hello Rebel..." -- 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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