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Why Project Gutenberg Isn't There Yet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-there-is-a-long-way-from-here dept.

option8 writes "This wired article ('Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?)'), goes into good detail on why Project Gutenberg, and similar efforts, are far from creating a complete, free electronic library. A quote: "The mechanics of a universal library are simple. The tricky part: harnessing the free labor." Though it doesn't go into technology much, I expect there's a lot of potential in mass OCR tech and good speech recognition (faster to read a book aloud than to transcribe it correctly)."

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  1. speech recog works by SHEENmaster · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    for short command sets. Mac OS X has excellent speech recognition for example. What we are lacking is a way to differentiate a larger vocabulary.

    I can see PG's next release now:
    Welcome to the audiotape version of.......

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    You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.