Why is the TRUTH about general Vista SR so difficult to obtain?

[Guest Jon]

I don't think it's ignorance. I think it just makes too many basic mistakes

 

to be taken seriously.

 

 

 

But we can all have our pet obsessions. Yours happens to be SR. No shame in

 

that.

 

 

 

I pay my electricity bill via voice recognition and the (electronic) 'lady'

 

on the end of the phone has never once made a single mistake even when I've

 

mumbled or had a cold, so it must be good. I sometimes suspect that there's

 

a real woman monitoring the robot just to make sure she never goes astray

 

(or that could be just a fantasy). Anyhow, I'll ask her next time, if I get

 

the chance, which operating system she runs on (the robot that is).

 

 

 

Mind you we've never yet got on to topics like post-alveolar velar

 

fricatives, Shakespeare's Henry V, nor Franz Kafka's parable 'The Trial',

 

but we're getting there. All relationships take time to build.

 

 

 

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Jon

 

 

 

Don't anthropomorphosize computers..... they don't like it.

 

 

 

 

 

"Mark Conrad" wrote in message

 

news:080320101254208457%aeiou@mostly.invalid...

 

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> Why, why, why, is Speech Recognition so difficult

 

> to get the "correct" skinny on, here and now.

 

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> Is it because in general that people are generally so

 

> ignorant of the general subject of SR, as it pertains

 

> to Vista?

 

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> We Generals want to know.

 

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> Is SR worth a flying **** generally if not, why.

 

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> Will it EVER be worth a flyng **** ? If so when?

 

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> These guys seem to think SR will be the cat's meow

 

> in about 20 years, if you look near the end of

 

> their article:

 

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> http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0267.html?printable=1

 

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> SR might even be better than non-skid toilet paper, by then.

 

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> I wanna talk to my computer, futhermore I want it to

 

> talk back to me in an intelligent manner, kinda like

 

> the computer HAL did in the old movie:

 

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> "2001: A Space Odyssey"

 

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> Is that too much to ask, in this technological age?

 

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> The General (Mark Conrad)