I don't think today's speech recognition is ready for text input yet. It will rather be used for controlling basic functions of your PDA.
Do you remember those voice-controlled ticket selling computers you can ask via phone "when does the next train to XY go off?" And the computer reserves your tickets. Now to the PDA: With MP3s in your PDA (in the nearest future) you could ask your device "hey, which songs from Moby do you have?" and the Device will present you a lost of titles (speech output?).
So Sense recognition is by far more important than speech recognition, and with limited applications such as ticket reservation (telephone hotline computer), Number dialing (cellphone) or music control (PDA) it is also possible with today's technology. And in your PDA it does not only make sense for music control...
So you won't use speech recognition for laying your device on the meeting table and make an automatic protocol in the near future, because the technology is not advanced enough. But it will make you able to perform certain tasks that require only a relatively small vocabulary without having to touch any buttons, e.g. while driving a car.
Today's modern Hi-Tech addict owns at least 4 devices;-):
a PDA
a digital Music player (MP3/Minidisk/...)
a Cellphone
a (digital?) wristwach
In the future these these devices will communicate/collaborate with each other wirelessly using Bluetooth ("pocket clients" see later in my post) or 802.11 wireless networking ("pocket server") It cold look like the following:
Your watch "knows" your appointments, because it syncs wirelessly with the PDA. It will always show your next Appointment and give a discrete alarm (vibration ?), it will also notify you of incoming mails/calls without disturbing the whole cinema you're sitting in;-)
Your PDA becomes a Pocket "server" which is storing your Data (Adressses, Appointments, MP3-Music[!], your personal documents,...). It is able to communicate with the "pocket clients" via Bluetooth and with te world outside via 802.11 or one of the many future wireless phone standards. It carries everything you need to get along in the information age, stored in a nice high-capacity (polymer?) memory-chip inside. Most of the time it is left in the pocket, while you perform your tasks with your Input/Output devices (watch, "cellphone", earphones, the "pocket clients"). For more non-standard tasks you take it out of yout pocket and use the build in passive "digital paper"-like touchscreen...
Your Phone is just a Microphone/Speaker combination the size of a Lighter. All the other stuff a mobile phone normally does (The wireless communication itself, adress-book, maybe MP3 serving,...) is done by the PDA connected via Bluetooth. Maybe it also has some keys for dialing. Or why not dial with your wristwatch...?
For those who do not want to hear theirt Music via a phone's speaker there could be wireess earphones. The Music, which is coming from the PDA is controlled via the watch. The PDA gets the Music from its memory, via the broadband wireless phone-line or your wireless 802.11 home network.
The possibilities for additional uses/devices are endless: The Phone on your office desk knows the phonenumbers in your PDA... Expansion of your device is unlimited, more storage/new functions communicate wirelessly with the device instead of being stuck into a limited number of expansion slots... You always take the files you work on with you, to access them in your home or office network, on the PDA itself, or wherever... You can pay wirelessly with your PAD/wristwatch combination...
In short words, your PDA will deserve the name "personal digital assistant" even more than it does today.
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Turn it off. In the Bluetooth Preferences.
Do you remember those voice-controlled ticket selling computers you can ask via phone "when does the next train to XY go off?" And the computer reserves your tickets. Now to the PDA: With MP3s in your PDA (in the nearest future) you could ask your device "hey, which songs from Moby do you have?" and the Device will present you a lost of titles (speech output?).
So Sense recognition is by far more important than speech recognition, and with limited applications such as ticket reservation (telephone hotline computer), Number dialing (cellphone) or music control (PDA) it is also possible with today's technology. And in your PDA it does not only make sense for music control...
So you won't use speech recognition for laying your device on the meeting table and make an automatic protocol in the near future, because the technology is not advanced enough. But it will make you able to perform certain tasks that require only a relatively small vocabulary without having to touch any buttons, e.g. while driving a car.
Today's modern Hi-Tech addict owns at least 4 devices ;-):
In the future these these devices will communicate/collaborate with each other wirelessly using Bluetooth ("pocket clients" see later in my post) or 802.11 wireless networking ("pocket server") It cold look like the following:
In short words, your PDA will deserve the name "personal digital assistant" even more than it does today.