Replies to post #602 on e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[haiyaku]

OT doni/cksla ~ just for fun, last week i took a Lego Vision Command camera and hooked it up to my computer in my classroom. i programmed it to see red and yellow (based on the color shirts students were wearing.) i then programmed the computer to respond whenever the camera saw red or yellow.

when mr. red shirt passed by, the computer said: "wassup" and when ms. yellow shirt passed by it said, "you go girl!"

whole lotta fun for a $100 camera. can't wait for the embedded voice recognition capability.

hai

[Orygun]

Doni, I just recently sold my tool and die shop where we had state-o-the-art machining centers, both mills and lathes; we had welding operations, air compressors and all this makes for a lot of noise. Rather than voice commands it seems the wave of the future for machine shops is commands taken directly from scanning or receiving drawings from engineering.
One of cksla posts yesterday mentioned a new IBM chip that used a new copper backed wafer. Our shop, Production Tool & Mfg., in Tigard, OR was sought out by Novellus 3 years ago to work on that super secret development. If it is the same program, we were building equipment to be used in creating a method to get copper one molecule thick on the "damaged" backside of a silicon wafer to improve memory.
Anyway, I think machine shop noise wold prohibit voice commands mentioned in your post. Lois

[cksla]

doni- you are probably right, but my focus will go more in the direction of personal use. I have to finish my posts on telematics chapters, than voice enabled PDAs/smartphones. After that I will address wearable computers/portable core computers and then voice recognition- NLU. Take a look at ONEV and its IVAN which uses NLU; IBM and viavoice are very much involved w/ ONEV. Imagine a computer/robot/"pet" that can "understand" what you tell it or ask it and it responds accordingly. The Jetson's dog is not that far away.