Bill Gates speech recognition

["aashram" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

this a snippet of interest from the recent abc interview with Bill Gates

JENNINGS: Can you tell me two things that you have changed your mind about
in the last year about, in the last year, about technology?

GATES: Well let's see. There are some things that we are always thinking
about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for
everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on
that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our
speech recognition. Also the idea of how the phone and the PC are coming
together. Where you will be able to see the calls that you missed, or even
when your phone rings see immediately who that is that's calling, or
control how that is forwarded, or even set it up so that the screen is part
of your interaction. We are seeing that as increasingly important and are
putting a lot of research into that.



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