Stak, et al, I'd like to talk about voice recognition PCs at the desktop level, or, whatever form of PC might be used in business office environments when voice recognition is mainstream. I have some dumb questions, but first, some background: most office areas have one of two kinds of "layouts", or landscapes, if you will. One is the "cube" arrangement, as in the Dilbert comic strip, and the other is offices with doors that close, if you wish. If everyone is busily speaking into his/her computer, won't we get a cacophony of human noise? Won't it be distracting to everyone in the area (unless you close your door, if you have one, and then you look "not open for business")? Worse, won't it be an audio soup that the computer microphones hear, something like the RF background from all the stars or the crowd noise at a ballgame?
Maybe it won't be as bad as I make it:
1. Not everyone is on his/her computer all the time.
2. Maybe the input microphone doesn't pick up audio unless it's very close (the user right in front of the machine), rejecting lower level (decibel) voices from all around.
3. Maybe the microphone is very direction sensitive.
Anyone working on this problem, I wonder? If voice recognition is a killer app to be, maybe Intel should.
Sounds like a cool project, anyhow.
Tony |
