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IBM to Open Voice Recognition Software
phug writes "According to the NY Times, IBM is donating code that it estimates cost the company $10 million to develop. One collection of speech software for handling basic words for dates, time and locations, like cities and states, will go to the Apache Software Foundation. The company is also contributing speech-editing tools to a second open-source group, the Eclipse Foundation." There's not much information out there yet - e.g. no word on licenses etc. It is worth pointing out that the Eclipse Foundation was started by IBM.
Are you sure you meant to say "All your base are belong to us?" Did you mean "All you lasers are better than us?"
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This IS great news because I've been trying to talk into my mouse now for quite a while.
"Computer?.....commmm-PU-terrrrr?"
Now hopefully my co-workers will stop giving me strange looks...well, one can dream can't they? No, I'm asking...can one dream?
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...if only computers (namely Macs) had this technology back in the 80's our favourite 23rd century engineering hero wouldn't have had so much trouble using one at the plexiglass plant. "Hellooooo computer". Still cracks me up.
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They'll never do better than Microsoft Sam!
Oh...this is voice recognition...umm...let me revise.
They'll never be able to understand Microsoft Sam!
Thoughts?
... ... arrgh.. invar has a capital V btw.
I don't quite see myself sitting at my office going,(read out loud)
if parenthese parenthese invar bitwiseor zero x three parentheseend equals
zero or i less than zero parentheseend curlybrace
No btw erase from first parenthese on last line to second parentheseend
At any rate I'd guess I can write code faster than I can talk it.
Modern voice dictation software is pretty good I'm using viavoice now to write this and I find bark bark shaddup I find that it bark bark shut up damnit bark bark don't make me come down there I find that bark bark okay that's it I'm coming down there argh crash thud bark bark bark bark bark bark
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
This is really going to mess with the "Free as in beer/speech" analogies :)
Does this mean that speech is now free as in beer?
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...all of the IBM voice-recognition software I keep getting spammed about, so the spammers lose their incentive.
Bill Gates announced today that the source code for Microsoft Bob® and Microsoft Clippy®, valued on Microsoft's books at $175 million, has been donated to the Free Software Foundation, a tax-exempt entity.