Re: Survey: User expectation to voice applications

Steve Richfie1d wrote:

Here lies Vladimir Malakhov and his secrets...

A scary thought, isn't it?

All right, all right... Steve, I agree, but Your opinion seems to
be on one side of coin. On the other side of coin, I know
personally some stories of "reasonable" hiding the know-how.
Story 1. 10 or more years ago there was small venture company
of 10 persons or so. This company has developed software for the
handwritten text input, and then they demonstrated it at the
exhibitions, at web site etc. without patenting. Finally they got
$$ from Apple for this algorithm. I had absolutely no idea what
Apple did with this algorithm either patented or keep hidden or just
wasted it out. My contacts with this company were stopped since
that time.
Story 2. I was introduced to a person who discovered some
fundamental law of prime numbers. This mathematical problem is
very important for e-commerce. It's impossible to patent the law of
nature, so this person keeps it secret. But this serious person has
found other serious persons from IBM, from government etc. Now
this person is a director of research institute of information
security (sorry I don't remember exact institute name).
Remark about complexity: This mathematician told me: a big
mistake to think that complex problem could not be solved in simple
way. The discovered law is simple like, say, the idea of "quantum
vacuum" from Paul Dirac, this person said. It is like key idea of
Singer (Zinger) sawing machine about 100 years ago: a needle with
hole at sharp end. So, Your outstanding application may require an
outstanding complexity, but other good things could be simple.
What remains? It's coin edge - edge of knowledge. That people
who want to make or to find something really new, they try to use
"directions" that have never been used. Nobody can be asked to
show right way. For example, do You need an advise about Your
research? I don't think so because I guess You know Your field
better than anyone else. Also this newsgroup is not a proper place
for scientific publications or for demo web-pages. I can divide this
group members into two categories: 1)"Professionals" who work
for companies, universities etc. 2) Independent "enthusiasts".
The "professionals" either keep silence or publish their results
or make demo sites or prepare exhibitions according to their
bosses' instructions. The "enthusiasts" usually keep silence
because other things take spare time and money they usually
don't have.
So, what could be shared in this newsgroup?
1) The negligible details like microphones, recording formats,
sampling rate etc.
2) The "global" problems like future of speech recognition.
3) The opinions about existing products, publications, demo sites,
exhibitions.
Did I forget something?
Sorry for my probably poor English.
Vladimir.

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