Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> writes: > On Dec 7, 2012, at 9:50 AM, David Rogers <davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And how about fantasy-but-would-be-really-useful features? Nearly unlimited. >> >> - Fully-functioning, practical Org-mode & Gnus & Emacs on a touch screen > > Would Emacs be Emacs without 5 modifier keys? > >> - Optical character recognition within Emacs > > http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/info/emacspeak_002docr.html Unfortunately, implements everything to do with OCR... except the important part. :) (Try our new OCR application! To make it run, all you have to do is write your own OCR engine!) :P >> - Text entry by voice (including programming languages) within Emacs > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeechToText Cool, I had no idea. >> - Hand-written text entry directly into Emacs, including filling in >> web forms > > Maybe if you speak Chinese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6l8gDaYzQ > > >> And then comes the truly unlimited category of "What, are you crazy???" > > Yes, Emacs users are crazy! > >> - Emacs Movie Editor > > Maybe you haven't heard of https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gneve/ > ? I was originally going to just reply with just this link, but then > I did some searching and found the rest. Here again I had no idea. > >> - Emacs Music Recording Studio > > Not a studio, but maybe a step in the right direction: > http://emacswiki.org/emacs/erec.el > >> - Emacs Audio-To-Text Song Lyrics Transcriber > > This one seems very hard, and in fact I could not find anyone who has > tried. This task is not easy for a lot of humans. No surprise that it's hard for machines that don't even understand spoken language. (Code that transcribes music notation from a recording would be even more difficult and even more spectacular - but of course has nothing to do with Emacs, except in the sense that Emacs has something to do with nearly everything.) :) -- David