Samsung Electronics has developed a mobile phone that automatically converts speech into text. Rather than rely on cramming words in tiny fonts onto a small screen, users can just dictate. Samsung's new technology - VoiceMode - is incorporated in the new Samsung p207 phone, which will initially be shipped to the US. At the CES Show in Las Vegas this week, Samsung also showcased a camera phone that can recognise text on a business card. Just make a picture of the business card and with the help of some OCR (Optical Character Recognition) the text is automatically inserted in the phone's address book.
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News source: The Reg
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The more users that leave IE, the more Microsoft can ignore it...and that's directly proportional to the amount of resources they can allocate to their big money projects. Instead of competing to give you software for free, they can spend their time and money dominating in other, much more lucrative areas.
While they're at it, why not bundle FireFox right in Windows? That would be like having an entire community of developers working for Microsoft...FOR FREE! So that FireFox add in your favorite PC magazine, or that news article about the virtues of the 'Fox..are actually donating to Microsoft.
I'd like to point out that I'm not advocating one browser over the other here, that's not the point of my musings. I simply wish to explore a topic that seems to be largely overlooked by the internet community: The fact that in the haste of the general public to discredit Microsoft's work, millions of users are ignoring the big picture. The fact is that they may be making Microsoft as happy as they are the open source community. Now if OpenOffice was to steal a million users from Microsoft Office...THEN you would have a war!
I welcome your opinions on the subject."
"Hey Mike...I had fun last night"
translated to:
"Hey Mike, I have lip fungus"
all kinds of unwanted text would be put into the messages.. lol and you hear a baby crying -translates to- *cries loud*
As long as you have a choice between voice/manual SMS, you can send blatant messages using voice and secret ones using text, or you can wait till you get off that bus so no one can hear you.
As people have said- your not goin to get a completely quiet room where people wnt say stuff
Of course there will be bugs, of course it will pick up unwanted noise, but then so does a telephone at the moment, and you dont hear people on trains and walking down the high street saying to people around them "Oi I'm on the phone, cram a sock in it!".
I say let the development continue, let Samsung and other companies forging ahead with this technology back it to the hilt and someday it will come together nicely.
No doubt people at the time of the first flight in 1903 said "Oh it'll never work, if man was to fly, God would have given him wings" etc... and now look, we can cruise all the way around the planet in luxury airlines.
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