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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/23/one_fifth_of_buyers_interested_in_apples_unseen_tablet.html
The tag on the link says it all. You don't even have to go read the article to know what it's all about. I'm one of those curious people who might buy a tablet computer from Apple. It's my speculation that the upcoming tablet is the real reason Apple upgraded to it's 64-bit operating system. It needed to open the upper limits of how much DRAM can be installed. 4 gigs of DRAM is not enough for a touch system to operate in near real time. The entire graphic system needs to be loaded in DRAM. Dynamic Random Access Memory. Open CL probably figures into what a tablet computer needs to do what they might be designed for.
All that really amounts to is a larger iPhone. What ordinary computer user could have known what would happen with the iPhone and all those thousands of apps people download to use. It's written that many an independent developer got rich writing simple applications for the iPhone. This seems to bring back the "personal" into personal computing. The big corporations have their mainframes and such, and the great unwashed have their iPhones. What else do they want. Mostly an iPhone with a bigger screen and a faster connection.
I'd probably be satisfied with a netback for what I use a computer for. Voice recognition would be super. I know what needs to be done to get voice recognition to where it needs to go. Growing up in the age of television people started imitating the voice style of the TV anchor men like Walter Cronkite and the other Midwestern voices like Johnny Carson and David Letterman.
I had a two-name major in college. Drama & Speech. That was the name of the Department. That's how they granted BA degrees. Speech classes were mandatory. I didn't mind. I like anything to do with learning more about the human voice. One of the most powerful things I ever learned was that only vowels can be sung. Consonants are just tools designed to chop up and shape the vowel tones.
My point is that the human voice has been and can be shaped to any plausible end. That's how voice recognition could get over the hump. They need to develop a software program that will teach humans how to pronounce words in a way that the voice recognition programs will understand them. Computers don't have the reach and scope of interpretation humans have. Visually, a human can figure out what a sign says if just the first and last letters of each word in the sign are correct.
They can do the same thing with speech. In other words, if my brother were to use a software program to train himself to speak in such a way that the voice recognition program on his computer would understand, I'd still be able to make out what he was saying, though his computer might not.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
