Some thoughts by Mr. Moore on "VOICE RECOGNITION"
PC MAGAZINE: So let's say one way or another: 15 years from now we're
going to have really powerful chips, right? Compared to what we've got
now; I mean, you believe that.
GORDON MOORE: Yeah, I'll admit that, yeah.
PC MAGAZINE: What do you think we're going to be doing?
GORDON MOORE: That's harder to answer. I think there are some things
that are very attractive you know the one I always come back to is good
voice recognition. I really think a computer you can talk to... it can
understand your speech, not only the words, but also the meaning ...is
going to change the way computing is done, and I think that is the role
that is well worth shooting for.
That's the kind of thing that is going to open up computing to the 85
percent of the people who are non-participants today and you know that
requires a lot of processing and a lot of memory but I really think it's going
to be an attractive deal. You can ask your computer, go out on the Net
and get you some information and, you know, like I would ask my
technical assistant to go out and get me the data on such-and-such and
have the computer come back with it. I think that's fantastic and I think it's
doable.
PC MAGAZINE: You think it's doable in this time frame? Sooner?
GORDON MOORE: A lot of it requires investment be made in software,
which is obviously nontrivial. A lot of people have worked on voice
recognition for a long time, and there are pretty good systems out there
now that require a tremendous amount of computing power. I'm not sure
which requires the most power, you know the voice recognition for
continuous speech, or the intelligence to understand what the speech
means. But I think these are real challenges and you know if they're not
done by 2010, they'll be done by 2050 or something. They clearly are
doable problems. And the more power, the more memory you have, the
easier it is to tackle them. You know the other side of it is the computer
and other applications--the computer is really proving to be a powerful
communications tool. In fact, I think more of them likely to be used
because of their communications ability than because of their discrete
computational ability. I don't know what the impact of that is going to be; I
suspect we're all going to be able to communicate from the almost
wherever we are or whenever we want.
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