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Even more importantly...
What it really needs to do is fit in a brand new unit that is 1/8 inch thick, as narrow as the Clie, shorter than the 505, with a larger screen than either that runs at 640x800, with a virtual grafitti area, 32 bit color, litium ion batteries with a minimum 1/2 year between recharges, full multi-media support at 60 frames a second and CD quality audio, Bluetooth, always on wireless, support for CF, SD and MemStick, and has a integrated full-size fold out keyboard for when your voice is hurting (but that adds nothing to the size of the unit). And of course it can't cost more than $250 or it will never sell.
Until they do that, voice recognition is pretty much worthless and really a complete waste of time to continue to research. Besides, it'll never amount to anything useful.
Sheesh, some of the posts on this site.
RE: Ooookaayy....
RE: Ooookaayy....
Thanks, Robrecht
RE: Ooookaayy....
The only situation in which I could see myself using such a device is in the car when using the stylus is difficult and dangerous. Looking things up on a Palm is already very fast.
Dictation is a possibility, especially for some professions (e.g., in the medical field), but I wouldn't use it myself.
RE: Ooookaayy....
It would be great for the car even if it don't work great. (It couldn't be any worse than the garbled crap I input driving at 90mph.)
RE: Ooookaayy....
I would love usable voice recognition on my PDA - especially for dictation of memos, emails, minutes, etc. But I am so self-concious, I doubt I could ever see myself talking into my PDA, even if it did work.
--Charlie
RE: Ooookaayy....
I believe it is possible to have highly accurate speech recognition on a Treo (cell phone integrated w/handspring PDA).
Currently, there is simply not enough computing horsepower and memory on a PDA to get good user independent speech recognition. That horsepower needs to reside at the speech recognition server at the cell phone service provider.
If you are talking to someone on the Treo phone and you want to setup an appointment with them, initiate a 3 way call with the speech recognition service and state the date, start time, end time, and location and record a brief voice memo associated with the event. The speech recognition server interprets the speech and pushes the appointment onto your pilot and stores the memo associated with it on your voice mail.
If you needed driving directions, the server could forward the call to TellMe (800-555-8355) and it will give you driving directions for free. If TellMe would be willing, they could make arrangements to push the text of the driving directions onto your Treo, or you could simply record the directions into voice mail.
Pretty neat huh?
Zac
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Sounds like a jobs for...A Springboard Module!
I wonder if IBM has some kind of marketing agreement with Palm that forbids them from creating Springboard Modules. Being that they make a custom 500 & 505 and all.
The previos poster who mentioned Doctors is correct. Dicatation is a very important part of a Doctors day, and having a nice visor Edge sized device with a voice Recognition module would be fantastic!
Good for IBM!
RE: Sounds like a jobs for...A Springboard Module!
Don't be silly. Voice recognition is barely functional on PCs right now, but will probably be an important interface Very Soon Now. While voice recognition for PDAs is definitely the Holy Grail, the technology won't be here for at least another year.
Right now, PocketPCs appear to be the most likely to incorporate this into their feature set. Microsoft already has the software experience in voice recognition and we'll probably see chips released that offload voice processing from the PDA's CPU by next year.
My ideal device?
- Palm Vx size
- CLIE N760C color screen
- Voice regognition/transcription
- Seamless running of programs from CompactFlash
- Ability to link with cellphone for wireles access (e.g. via Bluetooth)
- PalmOS (or backward-compatible derivative)
I fully expect Sony will have something similar by the end of 2002, except it will use Memory Stick. Hopefully, CompactFlash-to-Memory Stick adapters will be widely available by then.
RE: Sounds like a jobs for...A Springboard Module!
> feature set. Microsoft already has the software experience in voice recognition
> and we'll probably see chips released that offload voice processing from the PDA's
> CPU by next year.
Microsoft has experience in voice recognition???
chips to offload voice processing???
Since when did Microsoft have "experience in voice recognition"? Since when did Microsoft start looking toward co-processors to offload functionality from the main CPU? Neither is happening on this planet anyhow.
Guys - this is *research*
RE: Guys - this is *research*
Currently, there is simply not enough computing horsepower and memory on a PDA to get good user independent speech recognition. That horsepower needs to reside at the speech recognition server at the cell phone service provider.
If you are talking to someone on the Treo cell-phone/PDA and you want to setup an appointment with them, initiate a 3 way call with the speech recognition service and state the date, start time, end time, and location and record a brief voice memo associated with the event. The speech recognition server interprets the speech and pushes the appointment onto your pilot and stores the memo associated with it on your voice mail.
If you needed driving directions, the server could forward the call to TellMe (800-555-8355) and it will give you driving directions for free. If TellMe would be willing, they could make arrangements to push the text of the driving directions onto your Treo, or you could simply record the directions into voice mail.
I need this service like I need a hole in my head! I'm tired of trying to get my palm pilot to recognize the letter "R" on the grafitti pad! And I still don't know how it can suddenly jump to a completely different date and time while I'm trying to enter the text for the appointment I'm creating.
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Cheers!
Zac
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Ooookaayy....
Useless until all that stuff can fit the 505 form-factor.