Mac speech recognition, non-obvious uses
- From: Mark Conrad <noneof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:52:24 -0700
Non-obvious things that speech recognition good for -
Specifically, what will a Mac speech-to-text user, one who
does _not_ have any physical impairment that limits his
keyboard activity, use this technology for?
1) Preserve important verbal observations,
such as:
"I notice that switch is reversed, it turns
the nuclear reactor on, not off"
- - - and - - -
"I notice the 5,000 volt power supply is
somehow connected to all the urinals
in the mens room"
Speech is transient, important observations are sometimes
overlooked and forgotten.
2) To augment what one can do while tying his shoelaces,
or flying his F16 interceptor aircraft, or typing, or
while doing anything else that involves
his "trained reflexes", such as:
"Perhaps I should check to whether my patient
has two kidneys, before I remove his kidney."
- - - or - - -
"Perhaps I should check for an accidentally off-course
civilian passenger airplane before I shoot down
this suspected spy aircraft."
3) Prevent the mechanics of typing from interfering with
your creativity, as mentioned in this article
by a 120wpm typist:
<http://wordofmouth.typepad.com/george_silvermans_word_of/2008/01/sometim
es-you-w.html>
That is a very valuable concept of one important thing that
speech recognition is "good for".
Namely, _while_ you are doing a semi-automatic thing like
typing, your voice can "multi-task" by telling your Mac to
play music in-the-background.
People do this all the time, using their voice while
they are doing other things; we should expect no less
from our Macs.
Very hard to do this by conventional means, without actually
interrupting our typing, with the associated loss of
concentration and productivity.
Certainly MacSpeech Dictate can _not_ do speech multitasking
at that level of sophistication right now, but possibly like
"Dragon" running on PCs, it might be able to do speech
multitasking in the foreseeable future,
running natively, on the Mac OS.
Mark-
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