Voice Recognition is getting pretty good these days… so is Text-to-Speech… but what would happen if you combined them? Imagine a world where you could have 95% accuracy in voice recognition, and 95% intelligible text-to-speech. We’re pretty close to that now. Add one other component: I’ll call it Voice Font(tm). Imagine a text-to-speech “font” of [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2005
Jun 30
nor shall private property be taken for public use…
The U.S. Supreme court, in a 5-4 decision, earlier this week the the FIFTH AMENDMENT to the U.S. Constitution, which states “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation,” shall be interpreted differently. Now, “Public Use” is better defined as “Public Benefit.” In otherwords, if some developer wants to build supermarket [...]
Jun 30
Panda Antivirus
I’ve been using Panda Antivirus for a while now. At first I was impressed by their white-paper on AV technologies, and how their software sat under the application layer for better-than-realtime protection (unlike McAfee, Norton, AVG, etc.; which sit ON the application layer). With their most recent version they’ve added malware protection as well, which [...]
Jun 30
Distraction of the Day
File this one under “don’t quit your day job:” A television news reporter heads to the wine country to show us couch-dwellers how to stomp grapes. She should probably have left it to the professionals. http://www.sigma13.com/video/grapefall.wmvTweet
Jun 30
How to Increase MPG in your Prius
I found this while reading some postings on www.PriusChat.com regarding how to get one’s spouse to want to drive her new hybrid car to maximize fuel effeciency: What does she really want? A new dishwasher? A day at the spa? Diamonds? Use whatever she craves as a carrot. Tell her when she manages her first [...]
