Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

Speech recognition is the fastest input method available on a computer. It is much faster than typing, and very accurate. It does have its limits, though, as you say, busy/noisy environments and then there is the whole privacy thing.

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From: Jon Glass <jonglass@usa.net>
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:01:39 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Ryan Vetter<physicalconstants@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> That's how I see it: evolution.
>
Yet everybody claims that it so far ahead of its time, that this was
the reason why it failed... evolutionary--revolutionary... I come down
on the revolutionary side...

Oh, and voice recognition is decidedly _not_ revolutionary. And it
won't be until it can be used on a crowded city street or office, and
until I can talk at _my_ normal speed (which, duing to my being from
Pittsburgh, is _very_ fast) ;-) Personally, I prefer something more
discreet--and the keyboard is the fastest way I know of to enter data,
and the pen and "paper"is the least intrusive, when standing, talking
to somebody (It's odd, but when I use my Newton, people just give me
the info, and don't pay much attention to my writing, but when I use
my Treo, people behave differently, and it creates more problems
getting the data.... weird, but true)

And I distinctly remember how my Newton was in 1994, when I bought
it--trust me, it _was_ revolutionary. It was a watershed device.

-- 
-Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass@usa.net>
"I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus
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