Apple Patent: Speech Recognition Improvements?
The most descriptive is this patent which was filed in July 2002 entitled "Microphone elements for a computing system". The patent abstract is as follows:
- An improved speech recognition device is provided. The speech recognition device comprises a display with at least two built in microphones and a speech recognition module electrically connected to the display. The speech recognition module uses an algorithm that may take into account the position of the built in microphone on the display. The display may have a first axis of rotation where the microphones may be placed an equal distance from the first axis of rotation.
The application itself explains the difficulties in filtering out background noise from speech for recognition, and describes a technique with "at least two built in microphones and a speech recognition module electrically connected to the display".
Apple has not publically released any displays or computers that incorporate this technology.
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Originally posted by awulf
Wouldn't a rotating Microphone be a bit weird and expensive?
the microphones are attached to the display. They are talking about a display which could potentially rotate.
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It is tough (setting up speech recognition to work seemlessly with its user), I'm sure, from a technical stand-point, and it shows it with how it performs on most Macs. If i were able to talk at a comfortable pace and the speech recog. would be able to keep up with me while showing great accuracy and using reasonable commands for certain tasks, I could see this as a feature that would be able to catch on.
Include this feature with mouse gestures and you have the future generations of OSes. But i'm getting ahead of myself....
I wonder what they are up to???
the ipod, "reveloutionary" because it was small and hard drive based. 1,000 songs in your pocket! a PDA with voice based data entry.. definitely revolutionary!
yeah, steve said he doesn't like PDAs. but his reason was because he thought entering text with a little stylus was a flawed method. i think i remember a quote where he asked who wants to write entire emails like that. and he's right. when people use their PDAs for email, they keep the emails as short as they can. if you could just enter as you talk, with even better reliability than Graffiti and other stylus based methods, people would, finally, be able to use a PDA to enter massive amounts of text.
anyone agree?
Originally posted by confirmed
yeah, steve said he doesn't like PDAs. but his reason was because he thought entering text with a little stylus was a flawed method. i think i remember a quote where he asked who wants to write entire emails like that. and he's right. when people use their PDAs for email, they keep the emails as short as they can. if you could just enter as you talk, with even better reliability than Graffiti and other stylus based methods, people would, finally, be able to use a PDA to enter massive amounts of text.
anyone agree?
My thoughts exactly as soon as I read the rumor!!!!! This makes sooooo much sense to me. Who does want to write in all their e-mails? In fact who wants to TYPE them all in, especially on a cramped/carpal keyboard?
I'm thinking the perfect mix of a PDA and a PVR (Personal Voice Recorder). Think about journalism or any professional who takes a lot of notes. They use PVRs all the time but then have to manually transcribe all their notes onto their laptops, etc. Steve probably wants this one for himself!
Well here's hoping that it works as well as the hype will expect it to... Apple will have another winner on their hands.
I'm thinking the perfect mix of a PDA and a PVR (Personal Voice Recorder). Think about journalism or any professional who takes a lot of notes. They use PVRs all the time but then have to manually transcribe all their notes onto their laptops, etc. Steve probably wants this one for himself!
I'm thinking of the perfect mix of PDA/cell phone. The problem with current phone/PDAs is size, and small phones that sync with PIMs are to difficult and slow to enter text into notes, calendar and email. Maybe this technology can address those issues with voice recognition.
they are talking about the device, and not about the software right?
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