Very few people know this, but OS/2 Warp was light years ahead of current Windows products with its speech technology.
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 17:55 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > On 6/17/2011 5:12 PM, planas wrote: > > The current problem is we do not have any good information of what > > features are not very important and do not extend the functionality for > > all but a few users. The question is what mix of included and extensible > > features should be available beyond those that are important. One of the > > problems is you need either a lot different users surveyed at the same > > time or smaller number surveyed over a longer period of time. For > > example, most of the time I do not use a table of contents in my > > documents but when I need the feature I must have it. How many people > > need this feature irregularly versus those that often use it? I do not > > know. > > this reminds be of a conversation I had with Microsoft people back in 2000. > I'm > disabled, I use speech recognition and quite frankly liberated office is not > terribly speech recognition friendly (including its name). The conversation I > was having with Microsoft was about speech enabling Microsoft Word. They kept > coming up with these really huge unmanageable grammars to try and make every > GUI > elements accessible. I said "but I only use 10% of word" to which they > replied > "so does everybody else. The problem is they all use a different 10%" > > I don't know if it's comfort to know that you're suffering from the same > problems as Microsoft Word and there really isn't a very good way to solve > the > problem. > > What I do in a speech interface is I try very hard to isolate grammars based > on > context and maybe that's the kind of thing you need to do. Yes, you will have > cases where you have two ways of saying the same thing in two different > contexts > but it can't be helped. > > and for what it's worth, to do good speech user interface (i.e. not something > nuance gives you), it's becoming apparent to me that you need a backdoor > interface giving read/write access to all GUI/plug-in accessible data. Then > the > speech user interface can present the information and operations in a UI > appropriate context. > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
