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Originally Posted by Skybird
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But usually: normal people? What does Cortana do for me that I van not do with greater speed and precision with a mouse? Worse: when buying something like this Amazon cylinder that was prgrammede to react to the speaking out of the magical speel "Alexa", - only to tell it to play a song, or ordering it to tell me the weather?
Hype.
Specialised purposes in clearly defined environments, okay, I can image and have read enough science ficiton to understand that there cna be imagined scneairos, when it is nic to have a tlakign compouter. But they act todfay as if private households could not live anymorte wiothout these things. As a matter of fact I find the scneairo of commanding a computer to do thre stuff I want it to do via voice, much more annoying, than to use a graphical mouse interface handled via mouse (or gestures).
The next big thing, they say. I do not see it.
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Originally Posted by propbeanie
"Talk-to-text" has been around since the days of the Creative Labs Soundblaster 16, like 1992, if not before, but it stills gets confused. ...
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When I got X-plane 5 way back when (I don't remember the date), to get the in-game air traffic controller on the radio to talk, you had to install the voice stuff.
Which turned out to be voice recognition.
I could do anything, move the mouse, press keys, even start programs.
Set the "Listening" activation to "computer", then spoke with Mr. Scott's (from Star-Trek) accent, Similar to the way he does in Star Trek 4.
"Computer" 'now listening' in the bottom right. "start half-life/homeworld/etc".
It was useful in certain situations. I could boot the computer, walk to get a drink from the kitchen, and say "computer, start <program>" and it would be loading by the time I got back, and then I could say "stop listening" and it would basically stop the program and remove the load on the CPU (my 500mhz or my 1.4ghz system).
I liked it, but you had to do a bit of training, and it didn't need to call home.
All the voice stuff on my phone is off, and access is all set to "denied" as well as no background bandwidth usage. Automatic updates are off as well.
Noticed a massive drop in data usage after the first 3 days that I turned all of it off.
Even if I'm watching a ton of youtube on my phone, I don't get anywhere near my bandwidth limit.
Also, Command: Aces of the Deep has voice recognition with the game.
That was cool, "all stop". "Yes, sir."
It hasn't worked since Win95 though (it
might have worked in 98, but it's been a while).
Still, as Skybird said, I'm faster with a mouse.
It was more of a "range" thing, I could use the PC while not sitting in front of it.
Barracuda