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Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology
Odin's Raven writes "Opera Software's R-and-D department today announced the discovery of a new technology dubbed 'Opera SoundWave' - a platform-independent speech solution for short- and medium-range interpersonal communication. Based on open standards, Opera's patent-pending P2P speech technology uses analogue signals carried through open air, enabling users to communicate in real- time without the use of computers or mobile phones. Details (including link to tech preview) are available in their press release. I wonder how long it will be before a FOSS implementation of this technology emerges?"
VOIP-over-sneakernet?
You are not the customer.
I'm working on a platform-independent speech-to-text system, complete with OCR technology. It's all based on a massively parallel implementation of biotech.
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
No, really?
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it too far with this 1. April... :(
...I mean how many more april fools jokes do we have to put up with? Who the hell are Opera?
Let's call it a day.
Come on guys, now you are just wasting bandwidth.
War isn't about who's right. It's about who's left.
On Human to Human speech?
I would laugh if I didn't think a corporation has probably already tried to patent this.
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I seem to remember The Balmer talking about MS Speech '90 a few years back. Sounds like a lawsuit to me.
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
I was reading up on a company called sutech who had developed a short range communications transfer technology powerd by Dead plant matter .
It involves superheating the matter and using a blanketing system to shape the output
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
It's not a joke. Jokes are supposed to be funny.
You know it's only a matter of time before some idiot comes along and figures out a way to amplify the signal and then start spamming us from a "soapbox" (TM - patent pending) with this crap.
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well i have the binary prior art locked up too. just the other day my wife an i reverted to this special technoligy to discus how much it was going to takle to fix the car. she replied 1100.
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I tried using this once with the opposite sex. Who would have known she incorporated the Slap interface. Ouch.
Before long, the analog air waves will be clogged with sex-related content. And advertising.
sweet, succulent jesus!
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Incite and flee.
You can overcome the 100 foot limitation by tunneling it over traditional phone lines, or even VOIP lines, although you may require a speakerphone at the other end. Another tunneling option might be this http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt, but I suspect there may be some latency issues.
You can shout at the waves but they're not turning back. Give up for another twelve hours and come back tomorrow.
At least this year they're linking to other people's jokes. A few years ago they did the deliberate dup gag and tell me THAT didn't get old fast.
Jokes are supposed to be funny, April Fool's jokes are not.
What?