Nice Article on Speech Recognition for Authors

Submitted by Matt Chambers on Sun, 01/07/2007 - 12:49.

By an author who just won the National Book Award. You'll probably need to have registered at www.nytimes.com to read it. Doesn't say what program he uses, but all of us other than Quinton ( Smiling ) will think it is NaturallySpeaking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/Pow...

Thanks Matt! Nice Essay. It

Submitted by DSteiNeuro on Sun, 01/07/2007 - 17:39.

Thanks Matt!

Nice Essay. It is interesting to me that the main character in Powers' book The Echo Maker has a neurological condition called Capgras Syndrome.

Also interesting to note that Powers uses SR while lying in bed. I don't do it often, but I have found that I can obtain good SR recognition using the built in microphone in my Toshiba Satellite U205-S5034 laptop. I keep the laptop on a thing called a Lapinator and position the Laptop just right on my chest.

David, you must not be

Submitted by Matt Chambers on Sun, 01/07/2007 - 23:44.

David, you must not be married! By the way, Powers is one of my favorite authors. Haven't read his new book, but maybe you should. His book that involves the genetic code, The Gold Bug Variations, might also fit your scientific interests.

Bruce Cyr, maybe you should send this article to that professor who claimed that input by speech was necessarily inferior. Was he at Maryland?

Gulp! Do my words come back

Submitted by BruceCyr on Mon, 01/08/2007 - 01:17.

Gulp! Do my words come back to haunt me?! Sorry, Matt, I can't recall when or where I might have made that claim.

BTW, thanks for the link. I had time for the article on Universal Design while closing the last page of the Sports Section after reading the automobile links (I think endemic management brain rot is the Achilles Heel for Detroit -- labor contracts are just a side-effect) but little else.

Bruce

From one of the old e-mail

Submitted by Matt Chambers on Mon, 01/08/2007 - 13:18.

From one of the old e-mail lists (prof's name was Schneiderman):

Interesting article here:
> >
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A564...
> >
> > Claims speech Command and Control is not likely to become a major
> > player
> > because "speaking uses auditory memory, which is in the same space as
> > your
> > short-term and working memory", thus making speaking and thinking
> > contend
> > for the same mental resources.
> >
> > He claims hand-eye coordination uses different memory space, so visual
> >
> > interfaces are likely to be the future choice.
> >
> > Most interesting are the types of visual interfaces he and his lab are
> >
> > developing.
> >
> > Bruce

Woops. Looks like the

Submitted by Matt Chambers on Mon, 01/08/2007 - 13:23.

Woops. Looks like the quoted material was from Bruce Arnold, although Bruce Cyr also weighed in the topic. Anyway, the point is that a Professor Schneiderman has expressed theoretical limitations on the effectiveness of speech recognition for controlling computers.

I think I agree with Prof

Submitted by BruceCyr on Mon, 01/08/2007 - 21:00.

I think I agree with Prof Schneiderman -- at least I do now Smiling

Assuming the SR product is mature, it works only when the adapter has strong motivation to make it work, i.e., s/he will work at it hard. We're all in the club, but the vast majority on the outside don't have a clue.

Bruce