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Download the snapshot of Opera 7.60 Preview 1 http://snapshot.opera.com/... and take the speech capabilities of this beta version for a spin.
Personally I had little success with getting the voice recognition to work reliably - despite my efforts to put on a passable american accent - but it's certainly an intriguing new feature, and I can see XHTML+Voice becoming a valuable addition to any accessibility minded developer's set of tools. |
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Unfortunately this also looks to be a Windows only feature. After talking to the developers, it appears that the voice module is developed by IBM and they haven't released it for the Mac platform yet … if they ever will (not sure about *nix).
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| Personally I had little success with getting the voice recognition to work reliably -
despite my efforts to put on a passable american accent |
Taking a jab at us again?
, bet you just forgot the big wad of Chewing Gum! 
Just wondering about the need for American-English... did they state that or your idea, I mean ok IBM is American, but wasn't Opera at least originally European? Swiss or Swedish or something.....?
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Just wondering about the need for American-English... did they state that or your idea |
well, the voice opera uses to read has an american inflection, and pretty much one of the only commands i got to work consistently (well, 6/10 times) was "voice commands" with american pronounciation...saying it in "queen's english" prompted the usual "i'm afraid i can't do that, dave" reply from the browser...
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| saying it in "queen's english" prompted the usual "i'm afraid i can't do that, dave" reply from the browser... |
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*snicker* - Gee redux, no comments about it calling you Dave when your name is Patrick? Just wondering again... where does the Dave come from..... as it is a beta? Will it use the users name later?_________________
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Ohhhhhhhkayyyyyyyyy Kajun - whatever you say........ ROFL
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| *snicker* - Gee redux, no comments about it calling you Dave when your name is Patrick? Just wondering again... where does the Dave come from..... as it is a beta? Will it use the users name later? |
The Clarke I referred to is Arthur C Clarke, he wrote a short story called 'The Sentinel' in which Earth scientist/astronauts found a monolith on the moon. This story was then taken by Stanley Kubrick and developed, with Arthur C Clarke, into '2001, a Space Oddessy' which he called
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| the first multi-million doller religious movie |
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| "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" |
At some point during the voyage Hal felt the mission was being threatened and so began to dispose of the crew so he could complete the mission. The film shows the struggle between Dave and Hal which Dave won by eventually succeeding in shutting Hal down to the extent that it could not think for itself.
<added>'Daisy Daisy..' was one of the songs used by Dr Chandra when programming Hal and as Hal regresses, that is one of the parts of his programming that re-emerges</added>
So there you have it in potted form. I love 2001
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Ok, now I follow you. I too like 2001, 2010, 3010 or whatever the third one was where they find and unfreeze the other crew member.......
.... that said.... I have not watched it so much that I could follow your subtle hints..... but now makes sence...... I will now consider myself educated
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| I too like 2001, 2010, 3010 or whatever the third one was |
2001, 2010, 2061, 3001 ... although the last two i found rather forgettable
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guess i missed one......_________________
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You're all mad, but as 2001 is my fave book, I guess that means I must be too 
Anyway, abck to the Opera and voice recognition stuff
I had terrible trouble getting it to work at all for a while, getting the same "I cant do that right now, Dave" type message.
Eventually I got it working pretty well though, I found I need to press the talk button, and leave a short pause before actually saying the command.
With the 5 minute test I did after that, it seemed to work very well, though I didn't exactly go through the whole list of commands.
being a west country lad, I'm pretty sure I don't have an american inflection to my accent, though I guess I was trying to pronounce things more proper like ooh aar at the time
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cheers for the tip adrian, i might give this another go (waiting to be alone in the house though, as i did indeed feel a bit odd talking to my laptop under g/f's supervision).
speaking of west country accent...you haven't seen bill bailey's "bewilderness" dvd by any chance?
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