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Breaking the Voice Barrier |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Glenn Carroll Strait |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,616 Words, 18,654 Characters |
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In the Christmas season of 1998, shopping via the Internet became a significant reality as more than eight million households completed at least one purchase on-line. Considering how verbal people are, it is remarkable that all those transactions were completed through the limited medium of key strokes and mouse clicks controlling a desktop computer.vbcrlf Imagine what might happen if we could talk to our computers. It is not so difficult to imagine. That image has been planted in our brains through movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Trek.vbcrlf In 2001, Hal, a highly advanced computer aboard a Jupiter-bound spacecraft, reads the lips of two members of the (human) crew talking to each o...
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...via the Internet will reach $108 billion in 2003, up from less than $10 million in 1998. That's a rapid increase, but the projections don't take into account the impact of voice-recognition technology in making Internet access much easier. By the end of 1999, projections could be significantly altered, as by then we will have a much better look at how voice can impact the Web and our lives. vbcrlf
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