Just a funny bit of history. My cousin back in the day had a Quadra
840AV at work which was the fastest 68K processor Macs ever made as
Apple switched to PowerPC after that. One of the neat features was that
they had an onboard digital signal processor chip (DSP) which allowed
this crazy fast 40Mhz processor to do some very advanced media
manipulation, hence the AV moniker. One of those things was speech
recognition with no additional hardware, which was quite a feat back in
1993. Anyway, he had a coworker in the cube next to him who liked to
curse a lot and this really bothered my cousin. So with the speech
recognition on his 840AV, a mic snuck through the cube wall and some
AppleScript he got it to play the swearing fine audio from Demolition
Man every time it recognized foul language coming from next door, well,
at least often enough to be amusing.
CB
On 10/31/11 10:54 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
Well, some of it is already there, and has been since before Voice Over, before
OSX and possibly even before Steve Jobs was kicked out by the board.
Macintoshes have had a speech recognition system. It does not work as flexibly
as Siri, but you can have it understand several hundred commands per an
application and click on buttons automatically. And yes, there is the ability
to name your computer there. The question really is how much more work is
needed to understand more dialects and become less rigid in the clauses
allowed. I think the Macintosh Voice Regognition is based on the entire phrase
while Siri appears to parse out the individual words and then do pattern
matching on possible phrases. The other significant thing about Siri is its
ability to maintain context. So, if it just fave you restaurants in Farmville,
Va and you say how about in Roanoke it will reuse the previous category to run
the query. and most of the voices on Tiger and Leopard except Alex came into
existence on the Macintosh at the same time as Voice Recognition.
On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
Yes! If this happens, giving the computer a name would be a nice feature. I
could imagine it being in system preferences.
That way, if folks weren't creative, they could just say computer, but if we
had a name in mind, we could set that up. I
think that should even be an option for the IOS version, but maybe it just
isn't practical.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Red.Falcon
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:11 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Seri on the Mac?
Well Star Trek here we come!
Just do not say eject the core!
So would people like the capability to name there Mac or just stick to computer!
I like the idea to say!
Thor send email to Fred Blogs execute!
Colin
On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:23, Chris Moore wrote:
Well you have guessed it, it will be part of Mac OS x 10.8 (Lynx) :)
Well I would not be surprised if Apple did licence more Nuance speech
to text stuff for the Mac, and perhaps some built in OCR so we can
read graphics and DVD menus just like JAWS 13
Let's hope VO gets a complete rewrite on the Mac though, the buffering is a
joke.
Chris
On 24 Oct 2011, at 10:59, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
Hey All,
What do you all reckon about having Seri on the Mac? I myself would love it.
Just imagine, rather than typing, dictating e-mails and more!
Sent from my iPhone
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