ibm puts voice on palm

ibm puts voice on palm

[Buddy Brannan]

Got this off another list, and thought others might find it of some interest:


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>> IBM Puts Voice on Palm
>> IBM announces ViaVoice version for handhelds, non-PC devices (like cars).
>>
>> by Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld
>> March 8, 2000, 6:55 a.m. PT
>>
>> At the Mobile Insights 2000 conference, IBM demonstrated its speech
>> recognition and text-to-speech technology on a Palm III personal digital
>> assistant. The Personal Speech Assistant prototype shown on stage was
>> attached to the back of a Palm III, similar to other Palm III add-ons.
>Inside
>> the PSA unit was the Embedded ViaVoice software, optimized for both the
>Palm
>> OS and an NEC embedded processor.
>>
>> In the demonstration, billed as only a technology demo, IBM official David
>> Barnes made numerous voice-command and control calls to the unit, which
>> responded by verifying appointments, taking short messages, and
>translating
>> selected words into Spanish and Japanese.
>>
>> Read the entire story at:
>>
>link http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=15638
>>
>>
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Re: ibm puts voice on palm

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

>From the recent discussions on PDA's lately, it seems that most if not all
use relatively low-end processors.  It seems ironic to me that programmers
will now have to go back to optimising code for less powerful processors
when up till now it's barely been a consideration, what with the
sky-rocketing of PC processors.  I hope efforts to make programs such as
this work on PDA's will result in tighter code for the regular versions and
hence lead to lower system specs.  ...  but I'm not holding my breath.

Geoff.

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[cpt.kirk]

While it would be nice if developers took their tightened code back to the
full size machine I doubt that will happen much. i would suspect that
those developing for PDAs do little work developing for the full size
computers. part of their method though is cutting features.

Now for a question towards the goal of a PDA: When working with
refreshable Braille and the 8 dot cell. My understanding is that the dot
below dot 6 is used to indicate a capital letter. Is this correct? And
then what is the other dot used for? Finally is their a convention
concerning how these two dots are numbered?

Sorry for lying and saying I had a question when I have many. But one more
question directly related. It seems to me that adding these two dots to
the keyboard will greatly expand the input ability and possibly even
speed. Instead of using two cells for capitalization, you could use one.
How about some feed back about this and what should be done with these.
One inclination I had was to make one a control key since control is used
so much in Linux.

Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
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Re: ibm puts voice on palm

[Buddy Brannan]

I don't know what the standard is, but I feel fairly sure that one dot is a
capital and the other might be control, but I don't know. I'm sure someone
does though. ...

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Re: ibm puts voice on palm

[craig martin]

hello, there.  Dot seven is capital and dot eight is control.  they are
also used in the upper ascii set from 128 to 255.

Re: ibm puts voice on palm

[Janina Sajka]

Also, dots 7 and 8 together are often used to indicate the cursor
location.


				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina@afb.net


On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, craig martin wrote:

> hello, there.  Dot seven is capital and dot eight is control.  they are
> also used in the upper ascii set from 128 to 255.
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Re: ibm puts voice on palm

[Peter Persuric]

OK,  The braille cel as I know it has 6 dots arranged in two columbs of 3 dots
each numbered left side, or columb, top to bottom: 1 2 3 and on the right
side, or collumb, labeled top to bottom: 4 5 6...
One occurance of dot 6 makes the first following letter a capital letter like
this:
"dot 6"n  =  N
two dot sixes infront of a word makes the whole word capitalised like this:
"dot6""dot6"word  =  WORD
  The dot 3 is an ' sign.
  . = dots 2&5&6  ! = dots 2&3&5
   a = dot 1  b = dots 1&2  c = dots 1&4
  d = dots 1&4&5  e = dots 1&5  f = dots 1&2&4
     g = dots 1&2&3&4  h = dots 1&2&4  i = dots 2&4
  j = dots 2&4&5  k = dots 1&3  l = dots 1&2&3
   m = dots 1&3&4  n = dots 1&3&4&5  o = dots 1&3&5
  p = dots 1&2&3&4  q = dots 1&2&3&4&5  r = dots 1&2&3&5
  s = dots 2&3&4  t = dots 2&3&4&5  u = dots 1&3&6
  v = dots 1&2&3&6  w = dots 2&4&5&6  x = dots 1&3&4&6
    y = dots 1&3&4&5&6  z = dots 1&3&5&6
  There are also what are called short forms and contractions, basically this
is sort of like short hand.  There are more dots for other punctuation, ", or
dot 2" is one"=dots2&5&6"
Here is "sion"=two braille cell contraction,first cel of it is a commonly used
modifier in braille that is dots 4&6 the second braille cell for "sion" is the
letter n or "dots1&3&4&5"  These are space saving features of brl for braille.
another gd for good one is lr for letter.
  Well Here is some braille words seperated by slashes:
 / 6 1&2&5 2&5 / 1&3&4&5&6 1&3&5 1&3&6 / 1&2&4&5 1&3&6 1&3&4&5&6 2&3&4 //
end of brl words.
  Good luck!
  Pete

Re: ibm puts voice on palm

[craig martin]

The eight-dot system gives lots of flexibility to the blind user.  I use
an eight-dot display at work for formatting of materials.  The eight-dot
system is pretty exclusive to the computer world, though.  The dot belo
dot six is dot eight, and the dot below dot three is dot seven.  Dot seven
is a case indicator, and dot eight is a control code indicator.