Voice recognition and speech synthesis will only really come in to play once - if - we get some kind of a.i. going.
for the longest time I used to think that the next real breakthrough in computers would be proper speech recognition and text-to-speech conversion, but once I clued in to how slow the audio channel is I let go of that.
It seems such a natural, but language is so full of formal 'fluff' that you'd have to have a pretty good a.i. on the other side of the speech link to get any net improvement as compared to traditional input methods.
The ideal secretary would be able to interpret 'send an email to John regarding the outstanding invoices' and be done with it, before you've got a computer at that level we'll be writing 2020 or later.
for the longest time I used to think that the next real breakthrough in computers would be proper speech recognition and text-to-speech conversion, but once I clued in to how slow the audio channel is I let go of that.
It seems such a natural, but language is so full of formal 'fluff' that you'd have to have a pretty good a.i. on the other side of the speech link to get any net improvement as compared to traditional input methods.
The ideal secretary would be able to interpret 'send an email to John regarding the outstanding invoices' and be done with it, before you've got a computer at that level we'll be writing 2020 or later.