Re: CHAT: programming langs
| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 1:16 |
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Charles wrote:
> Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
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> > (There is actually a CHAT: in the Subject:, but it's gotten dislocated
> > from the front... does the ListServ subject filter catch it anyway?)
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> I was hoping for some new thoughts on how to talk to the computer.
> We've had shells and GUIs, neither is sufficient, everybody really
> wants some form of speech recognition. So what's the syntax and
> semantics of it? I'm just wondering.
You might look at what already exists for blind users. I know very
little about this issue, but obviously for some people it is vitally
important. After all, the letters "GUI" stand for "Screw You, Blind
Guy."
Until such time as a useful fully tactile interface appears, speech
*output* at least is going to be vitally important for one segment of
the population.
Ed
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