Re: It's curtains for voice recognition, says survey

["Shaf" <shaf@xxxxxxx>]

heh sure is and hence my development and investment with VR.

We are nearly finished here just gotta get the RedRat3 linux device driver
I
am developing finished.

At the moment VR controls x10, internet marcos and hopefully soon the
RedRat3 (opening up all infra red devices eg that poxy Telewest digi box
and
standard IR devices like TV's DVD HiFi et al).

Watch this space.
Shaf



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Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] It's curtains for voice recognition, says survey



Interesting article on The Register this morning.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/31739.html

It's curtains for voice recognition, says survey
By Tony Smith
Posted: 15/07/2003 at 08:28 GMT


Curtains, drapes, blinds, hangings, shades, valances, jalousies -
call them what you will, but consumers see them as a key application
for voice recognition technology, according to the latest survey to
emerge out the silly season.

Yes, some 44 per cent of web users surveyed on behalf of Intervoice,
a developer of voice control technologies, want to use such systems
to control their curtains.

So says a release the company put out yesterday. The survey's key
finding is that 49 per cent of respondents want to browse the web
using voice control, but it's sunny, hot and frankly the curtains
statistic impressed us more.

Right behind drawing the curtains, respondents said they most wanted
to use voice control for security applications (43 per cent) and to
tell their car to turn the aircon on (33 per cent).

"Voice is the most natural medium in the world," says Simon
Edwards
of Intervoice, sensibly. Then spoils it all by announcing to the
world, that the survey's respondents think that teleporting, water-
fuelled cars, household robots and talking computers will be common
in the next 20 years. ®



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