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To: alydar who wrote (63306)	11/24/2001 5:41:54 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Thanks, but just to clarify are you saying that: (a) Such an evolution will not happen, or (b) Such an evolution will happen without requiring massive local compute power, or (c) Such an evolution will happen and it will require massive local compute power, but nobody will buy them, or (d) Such an evolution will happen and it will require massive local compute power, but you won't buy one.

To: alydar who wrote (63306)	11/25/2001 12:03:27 AM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<< i do not want a computer to think for me so i will not be buying one of those puppies >> Well Rocky, you're going to have to come up with some solution, 'cause there ain't much thinking going on right now, that's for sure. Really, you think the PC is going away and you don't know how MSFT will make money. Your propaganda is tiresome, and quite obviously deluded. You better get in line for one of those thinking PC's. Seriously. Dave

To: alydar who wrote (63306)	11/26/2001 6:17:58 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 74651

blisenko, "the horsepower to run it, imo, is in bandwidth not processing." The human voice compresses surprisingly well and the telephone company has been doing it for a long time. It might be interesting to place a computer to listen at one end of a phone connection and have the voice recognized text sent over a network back to the voice end and show up in a browser frame. Neither packet would require much in the way of bandwidth, the only problem being latency which may not be a real issue for this application; depends on the network itself. When was the last time anyone complained about "latency" delays in a non-satellite phone conversation worldwide over fibre? How much latency is unacceptable for voice to text translation into a document/application? 100ms, 200ms, 500ms, 1000ms? Economies-of-scale may benefit this too, as ASPs could afford specialized systems hardware to handle speech-to-voice much more efficiently than the standard PC platform. As businesses become more international in scope, it would be much more effective to simply select a language/dialect from a browser option on someone's PC, speak into it, and get the results from a service which has a database of 100 languages than for a normal user to download or house all possible native dialects of all possible clients. Another service an ASP could provide would be translation. Salesman and customer speaking two different languages, with each receiving a language translation of the other's dictation as well . Just a thought. Cheers, Norm