Even with SR in a phone....
I agree, in a couple of years, a cell phone could have the power
of a Pentium III and speech recognition could easily be done in
the phone itself. But then again, it takes more than a pentium III to recognize speaker-independent speech. And as Portico becomes more sophisticated, it will need more processing power. For example Portico may someday be able to sense accents or dialects and talk back in the same dialect or language. Plus, while the speech recognition will be in the phone, making sense of the words will probably need to be done at a NOC. Just as AOL has caught on big, most of the processing of what the user is doing is done on AOL's networks, not the host computer. Besides General Magic has developed the VUI platform, not the hardware. So in the future, the "Magic Talk" operating system could reside in the phone on top of Windows CE, rather than the NOC. The big excitement for general magic is its Agent technology. Agents are the obvious next step. I want plane tickets, I want theatre tickets, I want my sell my stock at this price. I don't want to deal with the process, I want to be paged or called when my input is needed, I just want it done. Simply put, this is what I want, the price I am willing to pay, details etc, go out there and get it for me and tell me when you have it. Remember Knight Rider? Michael would bark out what he wanted and KIT would respond with what was requested. Michael could focus on driving and thinking about the bad guys and what to do from a high level. This will be possible very soon.
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