Interesting link, thanks for bringing it up. My answer is only- who's to know? We know the partners and customers of fonix(even Microsoft) have themselves touted Fonix. Well, we know Fonx is beginning to or is set to, appear in some well accepted products, creating never before known varieties of said products. Microsoft's X-Box for instance. When I asked a gameplayer whom I overheard expressing his great like of the X-Box platform what he'd think of games with spoken commands, he imagined commands like "fire," ect., and thought it would be a bad idea- he was sure his hands could outperform anything he could speak. I had to see his point and agree.
If that's not a good anecdotal story, I imagine there may be appropriate speech commands which could enhance gaming, I just don't know what they could be, exactly! :-) Anyway, while this was a sour prognosis I was led to, neither can I prove that speach will be useless on X-Box(I can only suspect it). And I can't prove which if any of the myriad of products suddenly employing Fonx stuff will or will not be a hit. I just see that there are a lot of irons in the Fonix fire, any one of which could alter things significantly for the better if successful.
Hey, I can't say what'll happen, but if nothing else, I do suspect that some fine day intelligent speech products will be quite an enabler for many of the keyboard illiterate folks out there. And I see too, that if Microsoft's investment in LHSP didn't prove golden, here we are now with Microsoft taking a second and much cheaper stab at it(after a fashon), with the likes of the relatively unknown Fonix, above anyone else out there. Of course, as your linked post makes clear, this proves nothing- and indeed maybe three shots it will take for Microsoft to find a speech charm- but for now, here Fonix sits at the edge of either total failure with a zillion new products from some major players, or at enough success with a at least a few of these to be meaningful. It's a gut call for me to think something good can break out of all these new products. Though the odds would seem to be long against me...its easy to see why the company still lives, for now,
as Freedom to intelligently Gamble Works,
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