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To: Joe NYC who wrote (44013)	6/10/2000 9:53:00 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Joe: regarding voice recognition's future. Count on it. I am by no means computer illiterate...as a user. I can whip out an excel spread sheet, broadcast an outlook e-mail, pound out a word document. But on a given day I am expected to ship dozens of those e-mails, manipulate hundreds of cells of those spreadsheets and create a dozen or more letters or memos. In the good old days (eight years ago) I had a secretary who could take dictation. While I jabbered at her I could be sorting mail, eating lunch, holding a side meeting and doing tons of busy work. Now, in the good new days, I create my own documents and spreadsheets by typing and using a mouse. Sure, in most cases it is faster, saves the Company money, moves data around the system more quickly....but it is not a perfect way to use time. I want the best of the old and the new. I want to be able to create, edit and bang out my gruesome daily work while doing other tasks. (I am a multi-tasking kind of guy!). I know there are millions of people like me, streched too far in too many directions during the work week. Voice recognition for creation and then dissemination of even simple work would be a plus. I bet the software of the future will give me what I want. I'm not alone, believe me.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (44013)	6/11/2000 7:48:00 AM
From: blake_paterson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Jozef: <<Some people who are computer illiterate (a shrinking minority) are looking to voice recognition to save them from their stupidity.>> This sort of a comment says it all about your ilk. Indeed, it is a similar approach by Bilow that caused me to stop lurking. You guys have forgotten who is paying the bill. Thought processes like this will be the death of any industry, even the mighty IT. I suggest you try reading a book called Emotional Intelligence. It is a very important work, radically changing the way people are "valued." Indeed the term "EQ" (parallel to "IQ") is now considered as important as IQ in Neuro, Psych, Org Dev, and HR circles. Sincerely yours, BP

To: Joe NYC who wrote (44013)	6/12/2000 4:15:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Jozef, Some people who are computer illiterate (a shrinking minority) are looking to voice recognition to save them from their stupidity. The best products work as we want to work, not make us work like they want to work. Someone doesn't need to understand how a car operates to operate a car, they just need to learn three or four basic input activities (brake, gas, steering wheel, and possibly clutch). Eventually they won't have to understand how a computer works (or have to learn how to type) to operate a computer. Just as there as specialists who design or repair cars, there will (continue to) be specialists who design or repair computers. The average person shouldn't have to become a computer geek to get their job done -- the computer should be just another tool that makes it easy to get their job done. Someday, there will be better ways to interact with computers than keyboards or mice (voice, brainwaves, who knows?), but they'll definitely require more processing power. Dave