[11173] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Voice Browsers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor)
Fri Mar 20 12:05:52 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:02:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor" <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Reply-To: roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
To: www-talk@w3.org
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I was glancing through the W3C note on Voice Browsers
(<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-voice>) and one thing bothered me. The
note gives the impression there is a strong tie between voice navigation,
and voice rendering. I belive that such a tie is weak, even if it exists
at all.
For example, I run OS/2 Warp 4. It comes with voice navigation software.
I can use this to navigate using IBM Web Explorer or Netscape Navigator
2.02e. I don't use this very often. I find it akward to use. I suspect
this is because I'm not used to the interface. I found Windows akward to
use the first time I used it too.
Anyways, my point is that I have no voice synthisis software at all.
Similarly I expect there are machines with voice synthisis software, and
no voice recognition.
I just want to say that I think it is important to keep these two aspects
of Voice Browsers separate becasue they really aren't related.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
