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Thinking Outside the SR Box
Submitted by BruceCyr on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 21:10.
From David Pogue's weekly column (http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/08/14/technolo...):
"Q: My wife and I discovered Dragon NaturallySpeaking about 8 years ago, and have been using it successfully ever since-- not for dictation, but as a communication aid. My wife is deaf; her hearing loss began about 25 years ago (we are in our late 60's) and she has become a skillful lip reader to compensate. That works pretty well in face-to-face communication, but is not helpful in many other situations, such as when we are driving; when I drive, I give her a side view, which isn't clear enough.
I've made brackets to hold a laptop both in our car and motor home. I use a lapel mike to speak; NaturallySpeaking transcribes what I say. She reads what I'm saying, and then responds by voice. When we got this working, it was the first time in 15 years that we could converse on the road. We are now using version 9, having upgraded several times, and based on your report, we will watch for version 11!"
Thats pretty cool. I wonder
Thats pretty cool. I wonder though if a driver facing camera or mouth cam would be more useful in this case though.
It reminds me of something that IBM/Intel has been doing merging lipreading and speech recognition.
http://www.idsa.org/idea/idea2005/g603.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940...
http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/applicat...
This approach makes sense to me. I find that people understand me better when they are actually looking at me. Its logical to think that visual cues would enhance accuracy with computational speech recognition.
On the other hand HAL did the lip reading thing before he killed the crew .....
Nathaniel
ryokanNHC wrote: Thats
Thats pretty cool.
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HAL did the lip reading thing before he killed the crew .....
Nathaniel
Clearly a M$ product
Bruce