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18773: Re: [MUD-Dev] Speech to Text, etc. (was: On socialization and convenience )
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From: "Adam Martin" <amsm2@cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:24:18 +0100
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From: "Travis Casey" <efindel@earthlink.net>
To: <mud-dev@kanga.nu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Speech to Text, etc. (was: On socialization and
convenience )
> DNS had key phrases to tell the system to stop transcribing and to
> start again. It also had a few meta-keys that could be pressed to
> give additional information to the system. For example, you could
> spell words out using the alpha-bravo-charlie alphabet, but doing
> so was helped by pressing a key to let the system know that was
> what you were doing, so it wouldn't try to put down the words
> instead. There was a key to press to let the system know you
> wanted to put down something as numerals -- e.g., as 333 instead
> of three hundred thirty-three. In DNS, those were a bit difficult
> to use because they were key combinations, chosen to make them
> unlikely to conflict with a program's shortcut keys. In an
> application that had its own speech-to-text system, though, you
> could assign them to easier key combinations.
Current version does all that much more smoothly without the need
for any kb interaction - I just tried a friend's new version and had
the hang of it within a few minutes.
Adam M
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