The tsetse fly is a very important element in the preservation of wildlife in Africa - wherever there are large concentrations of the tsetse, farmers will not bring in their herds of cattle. If the tsetse was eliminated a major impediment to African farmers overrunning the natural habitat of indigenous African wildlife would be removed, and biodiversity of the region put at further risk. Anyone willing to accept for five seconds that the environment is not a simple system???
It finally all makes sense. Media Lab set up a "European Branch" in Dublin about a year ago, for which they got about 50 million IRP (approx) $60 million, which was allocated from the indigenous research funds supposedly reserved for research activities in Irish Universities (not the most affluent at the best of times, but still producing solid results). The initial payment was not exclusively for the Dublin site, rather a large chunk was redirected back to Media Lab in Mass., supposedly it represented a "payment" from the Irish people so that Irish students we could have the privelege of access to Media Lab's IP. To the best of my knowledge, the number of students in the Dublin institution, a year after its establishment, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Oh yeah, I almost forgot that they managed to get a clause agreed on that a significant percentage of all funds donated to "Media Lab Europe", i.e. the Dublin based institution, would be redirected back to Media Lab in Mass. We're suckers.
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Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
A shameless plug; Xvoice has been around for a while now and provides the functionality required to voice control any X application under Linux. It uses the ViaVoice engine and has quite a few full time users at the moment. You can add grammars to control your applications with pretty easily using a simple XML file format. While there has been a reasonable uptake, given the interest expressed in the Car Mp3 voice control, I'm surprised Xvoice hasn't become more popular. Is this a case of a bunch of guys gushing over something which conceptually seems very cool at first but which ultimately is a gadget which add little real value? Can the same be said for voice recognition systems in general? I'm asking because most of the "real users" of Xvoice, ie the ones who actually use it for programming through voice and so on, have RSI problems or such, and are willing to spend time setting up vi/emacs macros to speed their system up to a usable level. I guess I'm asking whether people think voice will ever _really_ take over from the keyboard, or even become a common alternative input device. I'm interested because I was actively involved in Xvoice development and voice reco was a part of my postgrad research. Xvoice is at http://xvoice.sourceforge.net .
There seem to be a bunch of people saying how great it would be to use voice commands for their Linux HCI, so I thought I'd let them know that you can do it already, just download ViaVoice for Linux (beta) free from IBM, then get Xvoice by Dan Creemer. Xvoice allows you to send your speech (which is converted to text by viavoice) to any X application as a stream of synthesised Xkeypresses. If you're interested, I'm trying to develop some grammars for X apps like the terminal, netscape and Xemacs which would permit speaker independent voice recognition for command sequences, and I could use some suggestions from the people who'll be using it in the end so that I'm not developing in a vaccuum. Tom Doris. Remove 'nospam.' to email: tdoris@nospam.compapp.dcu.ie
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The tsetse fly is a very important element in the preservation of wildlife in Africa - wherever there are large concentrations of the tsetse, farmers will not bring in their herds of cattle. If the tsetse was eliminated a major impediment to African farmers overrunning the natural habitat of indigenous African wildlife would be removed, and biodiversity of the region put at further risk. Anyone willing to accept for five seconds that the environment is not a simple system???
It finally all makes sense. Media Lab set up a "European Branch" in Dublin about a year ago, for which they got about 50 million IRP (approx) $60 million, which was allocated from the indigenous research funds supposedly reserved for research activities in Irish Universities (not the most affluent at the best of times, but still producing solid results). The initial payment was not exclusively for the Dublin site, rather a large chunk was redirected back to Media Lab in Mass., supposedly it represented a "payment" from the Irish people so that Irish students we could have the privelege of access to Media Lab's IP. To the best of my knowledge, the number of students in the Dublin institution, a year after its establishment, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Oh yeah, I almost forgot that they managed to get a clause agreed on that a significant percentage of all funds donated to "Media Lab Europe", i.e. the Dublin based institution, would be redirected back to Media Lab in Mass. We're suckers.
Meejalab
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Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
A shameless plug; Xvoice has been around for a while now and provides the functionality required to voice control any X application under Linux. It uses the ViaVoice engine and has quite a few full time users at the moment. You can add grammars to control your applications with pretty easily using a simple XML file format. While there has been a reasonable uptake, given the interest expressed in the Car Mp3 voice control, I'm surprised Xvoice hasn't become more popular. Is this a case of a bunch of guys gushing over something which conceptually seems very cool at first but which ultimately is a gadget which add little real value? Can the same be said for voice recognition systems in general? I'm asking because most of the "real users" of Xvoice, ie the ones who actually use it for programming through voice and so on, have RSI problems or such, and are willing to spend time setting up vi/emacs macros to speed their system up to a usable level. I guess I'm asking whether people think voice will ever _really_ take over from the keyboard, or even become a common alternative input device. I'm interested because I was actively involved in Xvoice development and voice reco was a part of my postgrad research. Xvoice is at http://xvoice.sourceforge.net .
There seem to be a bunch of people saying how great it would be to use voice commands for their Linux HCI, so I thought I'd let them know that you can do it already, just download ViaVoice for Linux (beta) free from IBM, then get Xvoice by Dan Creemer. Xvoice allows you to send your speech (which is converted to text by viavoice) to any X application as a stream of synthesised Xkeypresses. If you're interested, I'm trying to develop some grammars for X apps like the terminal, netscape and Xemacs which would permit speaker independent voice recognition for command sequences, and I could use some suggestions from the people who'll be using it in the end so that I'm not developing in a vaccuum. Tom Doris. Remove 'nospam.' to email: tdoris@nospam.compapp.dcu.ie