David Pogue at NYTimes has been out front about how in love with voice systems he is. You can search his past columns.
Chris On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jeff Garbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of us old-timers probably expected voice I/O to be a common part of > personal computing by now. But here we are in 2008, and I don't see even > early signs of voice emerging into the mainstream. Products like Naturally > Speaking have some popularity, but my sense is that they're used far more > for dictation than any sort of command and response interface. Both Mac OS > X and Windows Vista have built-in speech recognition capability, but does > anybody use them (or even know they're there)? > > So my question for the group is: why? Is it due to technical shortcomings, > like recognition accuracy and dealing with background noise? Are there > social issues, like not wanting to be overheard or feeling silly talking to > a machine? > > Or is it that splicing a voice-based UI into current graphical interfaces > just doesn't give a satisfactory user experience? > > This, to me, is the most intriguing possibility. Voice command today > reminds me of the earliest versions of mice for PCs, which generated arrow > keystrokes as you moved them around; although they were ostensibly > compatible with the existing applications, they just didn't work well enough > to justify using them. Could it be that an effective voice-based UI > requires a more basic integration into the OS and applications? Perhaps we > need an OS-defined structure for a spoken command syntax and vocabulary > rather than just expecting users to speak menu items? > > Why aren't we talking to our computers yet? Should we be? > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
