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Title: Voice operated Web browser in the works Post by mylane on Mar 23rd, 2004, 9:46am Opera Software is developing a new Internet browser that allows users to talk to their computer, the company announced Tuesday. The new browser incorporates IBM's ViaVoice technology, enabling the computer to ask what the user wants and "listen" to the request. Opera declined to give a launch date. The browser is at its developmental stage. At a demonstration, a pizza order form was promptly displayed when the tester told the computer, "Order pizza." But the browser misinterpreted an order for "a pizza" as "eight pizzas." The computer learns to recognize its users voice, accent and inflections by having them read a list of words into a microphone. "Hi. I am your browser. What can I do for you?," asked a laptop with the demonstration versions of the browser. The message can easily be changed to suit users, such as greeting them by name. The demonstration version, so far only in English, is still far from normal casual conversation. Users have to learn to listen to the computer's question, and then wait for a tiny beep before stating their request, a bit like communicating by pressing the transmit key on a simplex radio. "I would like a medium pizza with extra cheese, mushrooms and salami," a tester told the machine. The machine checked off the appropriate boxes on the form, but interpreted "a pizza" as "eight pizzas." Then it asked if the order was correct, and fixed the number when told the order was for one pizza. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/23/opera.browser.ap/index.html complete details click the above link ;D |
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