Really? The Nuance inteperter dominates? Well while they are the 800 lb gorilla in the ASR space, and the VWS is getting better, I would have to say their interperter is a far cry from dominating anything.
OpenVXI is an opensource VoiceXML Inteperter. It is available at SourceForge. It is AFAIK the browser Speechworks uses to help sell their ASR. The guys at CMU who are working on Sphynx are the ones managing the OpenVXI so the hope is that some connection between their ASR and OpenVXI will emerge.
Having a felony on your record is not something you can just brush off. They are serious. First off he can't vote until after he finishes his probation. Nor can he own a firearm during his probation, and the federal gubbiment can at any time tell him to stop doing something or send him off to the pokey.
Once he is done serving his probation, he has to report this when applies for jobs and it will affect his earning potential as he gets older (unless of course he gets a big enough following and goes on a speaking tour.) He also can not hold a public office. I also am not positive on the firearms rule but he might not even be able to own a gun after he has served his time. These are serious life long repercussions that must be considered.
Sorry if the federal gubbiment says felony and 5 years probation for something I didn't do I am still mortaging my future to find a lawyer to force them to prove it.
I am sure we did not recieve all the information, but I am also sure there is no malice involved. But the solution presented to him was a royal screwing that will effect him for the rest of his life if he takes it.
No responsiveness problems. The monitor has a very slight blurriness but I am running it 1600x1200 at 75 Hz. The total cable run in my case is under 20 feet, with two punchdown connections (one in the wall socket one in a punchdown block in the basement.) The blurrieness is evidenced only with certain colors, it is hard to describe. My small 9 point fonts are readable in my term windows.
I am not a big video gamer, but movies and stuff appear just fine on the monitor. Of late all my work is audio related so I can't really say how it would react to really being driven by a video driver.
I did this as well, actually I have all the computers running in the basemnt. Down there I have a KVM which lets me choose the machine want to view. And since I ran Cat5 through the house I bought a KVM Extender and plug in my monitor and keyboard in the office. Works great. I wanted to hear sound so the other day I bought one of those TV/Audio 2.3 GHz reciever transmitter sets so I got audio up here as well.
I need to build a RJ45 to 1/8 Stereo plug cable so I can get the microphohne down the basement though. I will most likely need an amplifier too.
In all the KVM Extender (which will work fine without a a KVM was in the neighborhood of 250 bucks and the 2.3 GHz receiver transmitter were a hundred bucks from Radio Shack. So not bad at all, but then I REALLY value my quiet.
I think for the most part we have been looking at this problem all wrong. While I agree that renting software shifts the balance of power from the consumer to the producer of software, it also forces the producer of the software to sell you the software each month.
This opens up an opportunity for people to compete with the large hemonogy that is Microsoft. Think about it, if MS Word is installed on my machine I am stuck with it out of sheer laziness until something catastrophic happens to my machine and I need to upgrade and reinstall.
I paid once and I can forget about the software forever, until something changes. BUT if I rent software each month as I pay my bill and I will wonder, am I using this software? Does it fit my needs, can I skip it this week? It becomes something I do quite often, and if something else comes along that suits my needs better I will go with it.
I am sure that Microsoft will find pricing and license lengths that will make it inconvenient to leave the fold, but if the opensource community is looking for an in, software licensing is the way. People don't buy MS software becuase it is better, they buy it becuase they can get "professional" support.
The idea behind free software has always been that the code is free, the support isn't. If anything Microsoft is validating half of the open source philosophy. I see a great opportunity for companies to begin to compete with MS now. Because people will NOT buy a copy of MS Word and then forget it, they will be forced to think about and pay for it, and this means that other companies can compete by providing a quality product with good support for comperable prices.
I am sure that it is against the law for an employer to force a prospective employee to pay them for the opportunity to get a job, which seems to be to me why, the first guy who talked "couldn't remember" and the president sent an email explicitly stating what they are doing. Easier to prove what he said, and nice when the lawyer can get a peek at it first to make sure nothing can bite you.
I personally would not have anything to do with someone as slippery as this, if it is really true.
All seems rather fishy to me, someone aughta call the state labor board where they are to have them take a peek at how bidneth is done down there.
While this might not be exactly what you are looking for, both RFB and the National Libraries produce audio tapes of books for people with print handicaps. My wife has such a disability. The RFB is cool in that if you send them a few copies of a book they will produce it for you. It can take upwards of a year for them to do it.
Granted you have to be blind to use either service but it is my experience that you really want to read technical books. You get a lot more out of them that way, it is way too easy to zone out while listening to them.
Depends on what you do, I have worked in R&D in both Academic and Coporate Environments for over 10 years now. And while at Universities they don't care who you tell about about stuff you do, coporations are pretty fussy about what you tell people.
I have worked at places with lights that would flash when an important but unauthorized persons would come into our work area, at which time we would have to clear our desks, blank our screens and cover our white boards. When we left our work areas to get a soda or use the potty we had to do this as well.
Heck I even interviewed at a video game company where they not only had to do that, but they had to cover half finished circut boards with cardboard boxes so I wouldn't get a peek at what they were doing.
Currently I have a drawer in my locked desk where I pick up the mess of a days work and put it into the drawer before I go home for the day. And when I come in the next day I open the drawer and redistribute the papers, books, old chip bags, on my desk and continue where I left off.
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Really? The Nuance inteperter dominates? Well while they are the 800 lb gorilla in the ASR space, and the VWS is getting better, I would have to say their interperter is a far cry from dominating anything.
Jer,
What you are overlooking here is that there are MANY more phones than there are personal computers.
Jer,
OpenVXI is an opensource VoiceXML Inteperter. It is available at SourceForge. It is AFAIK the browser Speechworks uses to help sell their ASR. The guys at CMU who are working on Sphynx are the ones managing the OpenVXI so the hope is that some connection between their ASR and OpenVXI will emerge.
Jer,
Lets at least try to keep the facts straight.
OpenSource is NOT GNU. Even Stallman writes long boring letters to editors when they make the mistake of associating the two.
GPL is viral. It was designed to be viral to free all software. Wether or not the orginal holders of the works wanted it to be free.
Jer,
Having a felony on your record is not something you can just brush off. They are serious. First off he can't vote until after he finishes his probation. Nor can he own a firearm during his probation, and the federal gubbiment can at any time tell him to stop doing something or send him off to the pokey.
Once he is done serving his probation, he has to report this when applies for jobs and it will affect his earning potential as he gets older (unless of course he gets a big enough following and goes on a speaking tour.) He also can not hold a public office. I also am not positive on the firearms rule but he might not even be able to own a gun after he has served his time. These are serious life long repercussions that must be considered.
Sorry if the federal gubbiment says felony and 5 years probation for something I didn't do I am still mortaging my future to find a lawyer to force them to prove it.
I am sure we did not recieve all the information, but I am also sure there is no malice involved. But the solution presented to him was a royal screwing that will effect him for the rest of his life if he takes it.
Jer,
No responsiveness problems. The monitor has a very slight blurriness but I am running it 1600x1200 at 75 Hz. The total cable run in my case is under 20 feet, with two punchdown connections (one in the wall socket one in a punchdown block in the basement.) The blurrieness is evidenced only with certain colors, it is hard to describe. My small 9 point fonts are readable in my term windows.
I am not a big video gamer, but movies and stuff appear just fine on the monitor. Of late all my work is audio related so I can't really say how it would react to really being driven by a video driver.
Jer,
I did this as well, actually I have all the computers running in the basemnt. Down there I have a KVM which lets me choose the machine want to view. And since I ran Cat5 through the house I bought a KVM Extender and plug in my monitor and keyboard in the office. Works great. I wanted to hear sound so the other day I bought one of those TV/Audio 2.3 GHz reciever transmitter sets so I got audio up here as well.
I need to build a RJ45 to 1/8 Stereo plug cable so I can get the microphohne down the basement though. I will most likely need an amplifier too.
In all the KVM Extender (which will work fine without a a KVM was in the neighborhood of 250 bucks and the 2.3 GHz receiver transmitter were a hundred bucks from Radio Shack. So not bad at all, but then I REALLY value my quiet.
Jer,
I think for the most part we have been looking at this problem all wrong. While I agree that renting software shifts the balance of power from the consumer to the producer of software, it also forces the producer of the software to sell you the software each month.
This opens up an opportunity for people to compete with the large hemonogy that is Microsoft. Think about it, if MS Word is installed on my machine I am stuck with it out of sheer laziness until something catastrophic happens to my machine and I need to upgrade and reinstall.
I paid once and I can forget about the software forever, until something changes. BUT if I rent software each month as I pay my bill and I will wonder, am I using this software? Does it fit my needs, can I skip it this week? It becomes something I do quite often, and if something else comes along that suits my needs better I will go with it.
I am sure that Microsoft will find pricing and license lengths that will make it inconvenient to leave the fold, but if the opensource community is looking for an in, software licensing is the way. People don't buy MS software becuase it is better, they buy it becuase they can get "professional" support.
The idea behind free software has always been that the code is free, the support isn't. If anything Microsoft is validating half of the open source philosophy. I see a great opportunity for companies to begin to compete with MS now. Because people will NOT buy a copy of MS Word and then forget it, they will be forced to think about and pay for it, and this means that other companies can compete by providing a quality product with good support for comperable prices.
I am sure that it is against the law for an employer to force a prospective employee to pay them for the opportunity to get a job, which seems to be to me why, the first guy who talked "couldn't remember" and the president sent an email explicitly stating what they are doing. Easier to prove what he said, and nice when the lawyer can get a peek at it first to make sure nothing can bite you.
I personally would not have anything to do with someone as slippery as this, if it is really true.
All seems rather fishy to me, someone aughta call the state labor board where they are to have them take a peek at how bidneth is done down there.
Jer,
Granted you have to be blind to use either service but it is my experience that you really want to read technical books. You get a lot more out of them that way, it is way too easy to zone out while listening to them.
RFB is at www.rfbd.org
Depends on what you do, I have worked in R&D in both Academic and Coporate Environments for over 10 years now. And while at Universities they don't care who you tell about about stuff you do, coporations are pretty fussy about what you tell people. I have worked at places with lights that would flash when an important but unauthorized persons would come into our work area, at which time we would have to clear our desks, blank our screens and cover our white boards. When we left our work areas to get a soda or use the potty we had to do this as well. Heck I even interviewed at a video game company where they not only had to do that, but they had to cover half finished circut boards with cardboard boxes so I wouldn't get a peek at what they were doing. Currently I have a drawer in my locked desk where I pick up the mess of a days work and put it into the drawer before I go home for the day. And when I come in the next day I open the drawer and redistribute the papers, books, old chip bags, on my desk and continue where I left off.