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To: greenspirit who wrote (41187)	11/29/1997 10:43:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Michael, <But what if it was voice activated with some sort of Logic software embedded to understand what you are trying to ask? Consumers and the industry need it. The limiting factor is? You guessed it... inexpensive fast processors.> I am afraid you are sadly mistaken here. Even humans barely understand ideas and concepts even if they are clearly stated in WRITTEN. Good example is SI. There is a very little chance that anything useful can be extracted from a fuzzy voice rambling by a CPU of much less complexity than a human brain. The whole "voice recognition" project is a nonsense. You need first to design a search engine that will resolve simple PRINTED quieries before going to speech recognition. All current search engines I saw are primitive jokes, IMHO.

To: greenspirit who wrote (41187)	11/30/1997 2:09:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 186894

Can you imagine the Ali Chen television set? It would have a mechanical cable attached to a picture changer which would alternate between two channels as you clicked it. On the first channel you would see a still and once you had the picture, as it were, you would click back to the other channel to view the next still composition. You would be click, click, click, clicking your way through a movie presentation like a slide-show. He does have a point about the search engines, however. The current engines can't manage text inputs and a voice operated system would first tranform your voice to plain old text, then use that as inputs to the text search engine. The addition of voice isn't going to improve a bad search engine.

To: greenspirit who wrote (41187)	11/30/1997 3:30:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Michael, <As more and more fast inexpensive processors are made available. Software developers will find more and more innovative way's to use them.> Like a clueless paper clip you've mentioned above? Is that what you mean under innovation? BTW, did you notice that the grimacing paper clip window cannot be closed by usual way of clicking on the "crossed" button? Is this another manifestation of "easier to understand" computer control? My take on this Office97 is simple. It is a conspirative attempt to bloat the software in order to boost transition to faster Intel chips. This is not a progress as some people want to present this move. This is a fraud.