Hmm, I'm a bit skeptical about speech recognition. In general the technology is nowhere yet where it has to be. It still needs a LOT of improvement. For example: my dad's car has an in-built speech recognition device which is supposed to recognise a person's name and make a connection to that specific person's phone number and dial it. So when my dad pronounces the name of my mother, the device should automatically call my mother. But in 99% of the cases, it fails to work properly. And it's certainly quite an expensive car with an advanced in-built computer system. So yeah, I think speech recognition offers possibilities, but still needs to be developed further, especially when it comes to differentiating language patterns. For example, one of the biggest problems with speech to text technology nowadays is the ambiguity of language. A computer has problems distinguishing certain semantics. The following sentence has a double meaning: 'Paris Hilton threw up at the Paris Hilton'. We, as people, have the ability to derive from the context and our worldly knowledge that the first Paris Hilton is a person and the second a hotel located in the french city Paris. A computer mostly lacks this knowledge and needs extensive programming and fine-tuning to be able to make this simple differentiation. Usually the effort put into such systems is bigger than the result. But maybe sometime in the future.
I guess the various programs out there probably vary in terms of how well they work. In my experience Dragon on the iPhone and iPad works amazingly well, I have to say.
Who needs to type when you have you have speech recognition built in to your Google Glass?
Because typing is fast, silent and accurate? Speech recognition has its use cases - obviously something like Google Glass cannot use a keyboard - but there's no way it can compete with a keyboard on power and performance.
For example, I'm a computer programmer so my job requires me to type 8 hours a day. I cannot imagine how ridiculous and tiring it would be to have to talk all day long, and endure my colleagues doing the same. :P
Talking instead of writing seems like stepping back two millenia in time. Back in ancient times, the ancient greeks read aloud when reading. Silent reading and writing came into being only later.
Besides, it would feel very awkward to tell a computer what to do instead of typing. Where to put a komma or punctuation mark, what words to delete, where to start a new paragraph, making a table. Well, maybe those problems have been solved, but I don't know how they did it? I feel much more at ease with a mouse and keyboard anyways.
Who needs to type when you have you have speech recognition built in to your Google Glass?
Because typing is fast, silent and accurate? Speech recognition has its use cases - obviously something like Google Glass cannot use a keyboard - but there's no way it can compete with a keyboard on power and performance.
For example, I'm a computer programmer so my job requires me to type 8 hours a day. I cannot imagine how ridiculous and tiring it would be to have to talk all day long, and endure my colleagues doing the same. :P
I know that you know that I was being facetious, and I totally agree that practical use of speech response is limited!
When I'm looking up things at my grandmother's house while she's making me dinner, I'd rather not have to yell "barely legal girl on girl dwarf porn!" at my tablet a few times before it knows what I'm talking about.
When I'm looking up things at my grandmother's house while she's making me dinner, I'd rather not have to yell "barely legal girl on girl dwarf porn!" at my tablet a few times before it knows what I'm talking about.
I like text-to-speech better, actually. Using the Windows 7 program I will sometimes have it read articles to me as I surf or work on something. Sort of like the poor man's books-on-audio for longish Internet articles that I otherwise probably would never have gotten around to reading.
What's crazy is microsoft seems to be betting against the desktop PC with their crappy Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface Tablet. The classic interface that works best with a keyboard and mouse is buried underneath touch screen friendly screens and apps that are not keyboard and mouse friendly.
You would think Microsoft of all companies would support Desktop PCs and not try and push people to tablets but I guess you could call it a case of cutting off the nose to spite the face. I guess success is intolerable after a while and you feel like you need to branch out or something?? I don't get it.
What's crazy is microsoft seems to be betting against the desktop PC with their crappy Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface Tablet. The classic interface that works best with a keyboard and mouse is buried underneath touch screen friendly screens and apps that are not keyboard and mouse friendly.
It's also worse than you think: Windows 8 doesn't detect graphics tablets like Wacom Cintiq tablets as touch screen.
I paid two thousand dollars for my tablet and it doesn't work like a touchscreen on Windows 8, the very operating system that boasts a touch interface.
I don't think it is necessarily the death of the PC (they really mean the DESKTOP PC), just that the desktop PC has hit it's pinnacle as far as growth is concerned. Companies are all about growth, so they are looking for the next innovation. Laptops are great for certain users, as are tablets, heck even smart phones, but desktop PCs can do it all, they just lack portability.
Look at digital cameras as a good example. They practically wiped out film cameras, then they got smaller and smaller, but now phones have cameras that are good enough to take decent (casual) quality photos/video, but do photographers use smart phones as their primary cameras? No. Are film cameras entirely abandoned? No.
I would also imagine that the vast bulk of computers sold are laptops through brick and mortar stores from big name manufacturers with entry level components. It has become standard throughout many industries to do away with upgrading and repair in favor of replacement and make products that work out of the box (mostly, however poorly).
The upside to the laptops over the desktop PC is portability and an all-in-one build. It is fully usable with just the one purchase (keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor, camera, microphone, power) It is more powerful than a tablet and able to be used more for actual computing than the tablet.
The tablet is much smaller and lighter than a laptop or even the poor mini laptops. Using a touchscreen is very intuitive to casual users and they are good for fun usage (photos, music, email, internet, reading, and gaming (not the kind of gaming we are used to, I know, but some people like simpler games).
Your desktop might live on for over five years or more (upgraded over time), but a laptop has a much shorter life-span, a tablet even less. The bottom line is that advertisement and media want the sheeple to buy into the new next big trend, so they can make more money.
What's crazy is microsoft seems to be betting against the desktop PC with their crappy Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface Tablet. The classic interface that works best with a keyboard and mouse is buried underneath touch screen friendly screens and apps that are not keyboard and mouse friendly.
You would think Microsoft of all companies would support Desktop PCs and not try and push people to tablets but I guess you could call it a case of cutting off the nose to spite the face. I guess success is intolerable after a while and you feel like you need to branch out or something?? I don't get it.
I'm wondering about this as well. I never was let down by Microsoft until Windows 8. I still hate how they removed the classic 'Start' button in the lower left of the screen. Had to help my sister with the most basic things this evening, as the software just confuses the hell out of her as well.
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For example, I'm a computer programmer so my job requires me to type 8 hours a day. I cannot imagine how ridiculous and tiring it would be to have to talk all day long, and endure my colleagues doing the same. :P
Besides, it would feel very awkward to tell a computer what to do instead of typing. Where to put a komma or punctuation mark, what words to delete, where to start a new paragraph, making a table. Well, maybe those problems have been solved, but I don't know how they did it? I feel much more at ease with a mouse and keyboard anyways.
Also, some things are better not said in public. Personal matters and such.
I'll stick to typing it, thanks
You would think Microsoft of all companies would support Desktop PCs and not try and push people to tablets but I guess you could call it a case of cutting off the nose to spite the face. I guess success is intolerable after a while and you feel like you need to branch out or something?? I don't get it.
I paid two thousand dollars for my tablet and it doesn't work like a touchscreen on Windows 8, the very operating system that boasts a touch interface.
Imagine my surprise.
Look at digital cameras as a good example. They practically wiped out film cameras, then they got smaller and smaller, but now phones have cameras that are good enough to take decent (casual) quality photos/video, but do photographers use smart phones as their primary cameras? No. Are film cameras entirely abandoned? No.
I would also imagine that the vast bulk of computers sold are laptops through brick and mortar stores from big name manufacturers with entry level components. It has become standard throughout many industries to do away with upgrading and repair in favor of replacement and make products that work out of the box (mostly, however poorly).
The upside to the laptops over the desktop PC is portability and an all-in-one build. It is fully usable with just the one purchase (keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor, camera, microphone, power) It is more powerful than a tablet and able to be used more for actual computing than the tablet.
The tablet is much smaller and lighter than a laptop or even the poor mini laptops. Using a touchscreen is very intuitive to casual users and they are good for fun usage (photos, music, email, internet, reading, and gaming (not the kind of gaming we are used to, I know, but some people like simpler games).
Your desktop might live on for over five years or more (upgraded over time), but a laptop has a much shorter life-span, a tablet even less. The bottom line is that advertisement and media want the sheeple to buy into the new next big trend, so they can make more money.