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Cassandra

12/02/03 7:12 PM

#53222 RE: HotrodHans #53221

"Voice Nav" is voice recognition technology licensed from Lucent, not EDIG.

lickily

12/02/03 9:09 PM

#53254 RE: HotrodHans #53221

Yes, but the jury is still out on speech technology. Overall, most of the reviews have said that at best it is a nice gimmick, while others have said it is pretty useless.

On paper it seems like it would be an ideal way to navigate a huge music database, but as with all consumer electronics technology it really has to be idiot-proof and it sounds like right now it hasn't reached that level yet.

I've used some pretty impressive speech recognition systems, but they all go haywire when the ambient noise level increases. Plus, there is the problem of getting people comfortable with the idea of talking to a device.