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Opera Promises Voice-Operated Web Browser
unassimilatible writes "Opera's latest browser talks and listens, according to AP.
The new browser incorporates IBM's ViaVoice technology, enabling the computer to ask what the user wants and "listen" to the request. "Hi. I am your browser. What can I do for you?" asked a laptop with the demonstration versions of the browser. The message can be personalized, such as greeting users by name. The computer learns to recognize users' voices, accents and inflections by having them read a list of words into a microphone. Opera plans to first launch an English version of the voice browser for computers running the Windows operating system. Versions for other systems, including handhelds, will follow. Opera's press release has more details, including Opera's hopes that people will adopt this technology for presentations - and to replace PowerPoint."
Voice operation. What's it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?
Time the presentation and the slide transitions, then make sure you have some extra information (the stuff you trimmed) for each slide. If you go over in time, make a quick transition and continue. If you go too long, bring out some of the info not in the slide and field questions.
Same effect, and if you do it right, the audience cant tell you screwed up the timings by 30 seconds.
Contact Me (got tired of viruses emailing me).
A friend of mine lived such thing while trying to dial a family member via BMW X5'es voice enabled internal computer/phone...
;) At last, I got mad and picked up the phone, dialed for him...
Except it lasted more than that