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To: stak who wrote (66725)	10/15/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

stak, <Voice recognition...> is utter nonsense in computing. People have invented paper and pencil to enhance their abilities to communicate ideas, commands, and information with higher precision than the voice can. It has lead to major progress in sciences and general knowledge. Computers are just more powerful extensions of piles of papers with carved precise information. The speech is inherently fuzzy and imprecise. Voice interface capability has no advantage in most area of computing, excluding few very special and rare applications. Only disadvantages. As someone on this thread already realized (Tony? Fred?) that it is a nonsense when everybody will start talking in their cubicles... Make no mistake, there will be no "killer" applications in this area. FYI, Microsoft was selling for two years their "voice commander" or whatever. It even works, and works correctly. However every user eventually stop using it after a few days of playing with it. -Ali P.S. Please also do not confuse "voice" recognition with "speech" recognition...