[MUD-Dev] Speech to Text, etc. (was: On socialization and convenience )

[Adam Martin]

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From: "Travis Casey" <efindel at earthlink.net>
To: <mud-dev at 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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