Tiger will include Spoken Interface. The integration of aural tools into the OS (instead of tacking on screen readers) will be a major improvement over both the current Mac and Windows systems and a huge boon to users with a visual handicap or motor skill impairment.
If any company can find the balance of quality and diversity, it is Apple. A few Gigs of disk is well worth the bounces they will get in their song count and the coin of Jobs' realm -- good karma. I'm sure they'll beef up the Amazon-like "listeners who bought this also bought..." section to help.
Do you think this could be implemented on the current Palm platform? I understand it's jerky on older Macs, but I'd love a stripped-down version for my Palm. This seems much more useful than Ink or the dumb pop-up keyboard. The whole PocketPC thing gives me the willies.
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UF posted an audio interview with one of the professors involved on the Audio section of its news site. You can also get it on their podcast.
Tiger will include Spoken Interface. The integration of aural tools into the OS (instead of tacking on screen readers) will be a major improvement over both the current Mac and Windows systems and a huge boon to users with a visual handicap or motor skill impairment.
(wear jean shorts && beat Georgia 12 out of 13 years) || lose year-after-year ... hmmm ... make mine stonewashed, please
If any company can find the balance of quality and diversity, it is Apple. A few Gigs of disk is well worth the bounces they will get in their song count and the coin of Jobs' realm -- good karma. I'm sure they'll beef up the Amazon-like "listeners who bought this also bought..." section to help.
looks like apple is only archiving ... anyone know of a live feed?
Do you think this could be implemented on the current Palm platform? I understand it's jerky on older Macs, but I'd love a stripped-down version for my Palm. This seems much more useful than Ink or the dumb pop-up keyboard. The whole PocketPC thing gives me the willies.