Intel Sees Communications As Company's Next Frontier

WSJdpatton writes "Intel is mounting a long-term campaign to turn personal computers into more reliable tools for calling and conferencing. Intel business-client architecture director Steve Grobman argues that instead of exploiting the Internet to lower communications costs, the next phase is about adding new features. Among the benefits for business: broader access to online meetings with advanced features such as TiVo-style playback, instant captioning of conversations — or even translation into multiple languages. 'That technology could be a foundation for companies to add improvements such as the ability to identify the current speaker during a conference call ... He eventually expects advanced features -- such as automatic transcription or translation of conferences. Intel has used deals to advance its plans. A February 2006 partnership with Skype included joint development to tailor the service for Intel's dual-core chips, and free PC-based conferencing for as many as 10 participants.'"

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Voice recognition AND translation?!

[RingDev]

This aught to be good:

CEO: Sales are up, things are looking good!
Caption: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
Computerized Russian Voice: , let's delete
Russian repeats back message.
English computerized voice: The dear aunt, us the duel assassin of to erase has left therefore establishes chooses everything

The Cold War 2.0 breaks out.

-Rick