On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:40:17PM +0000, Chris Ball wrote: >Speech interfaces are a little >broken when you're either in a situation with lots of background noise >or want to do something without everyone around you knowing what it is.
Anyone remember the ICL OPD? It solved these problems perfectly: instead of having big speakers and a stalk microphone, it came with a phone handset (which one could also use as a real phone, of course). Suddenly you could actually _use_ sound, in an open-plan office... Roger -- He's an old-fashioned one-eyed grifter haunted by an iconic dead American confidante. She's a bloodthirsty tempestuous nun from a family of eight older brothers. They fight crime!
