On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Anders Johansson <ajh@rydsbo.net> wrote:
On Saturday 03 May 2008 23:59:00 John Andersen wrote:
Admittedly these things are using a vastly reduced vocabulary. But never the less, training is on the way out.
Doesn't that require that dialects disappear as well?
I can easily find three English/American dialects which *you* couldn't understand. What chance would your phone have?
Phones are sold into specific markets, and they know about several languages, you select one when setting up the phone. I can't say how well it would work for an Australian or Indian speaker but my phone, sold to the North American market works quite well with finding names in the phone book, selecting menu options, etc. Works equally well for my wife. No clue how they do this. Nuance Inc is the big dog in this area. They have been buying up the competition mostly for patents. They have their software in many different phones, Personal Navigation Devices, Automobile accessories and desktop applications. Disclosure: I'm a stock holder of Nuance. I suspect Voice reco is going to go big time in many different industry segments in coming years, which is why I bought the stock. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org