Friday, February 15, 2002

Voiceml to serve as a personal assistant - have the application parse the text it is reading from into the individual phonemes that make up the words ( a dictionary could be done on a chip, with some form of semi static ram to serve updates/personal changes... or use a cf or microdrive as needed) once parsed, it runs another pass this time noting punctuation to break up the rhythm of the speech. A simple algorithm is then used as the text is read to approximate spots where a person would breathe and or pause. On the flip side those same technologies combined with a noise canceling microphone would serve to get information in, and help speed dictation and closed captioning of TV shows and movies. Back on the personal assistant, it could then take dictation, schedule appointments, read you your e-mail and news headlines as well as any other info that you need. XML feeds of the information would serve to help you store, edit, and quantify on the topics you a re interested in, so long as the news provider was willing to hand out the rss feed. Further, this could lead to a personalized librarian as described in All Tomorrows Parties as well as in Snow Crash. Combine that with the home manufacturing plant/machine shop, and you could have everything you need built to either your specifications, or to a "class size" as Herman Miller does with their chair lines now (offering 3 sizes depending on user height and weight, covering a certain amount of the bell curve with each one.) Using the cost per served data model described in Farewell Horizontal and Snow Crash would also help kick peer to peer into high gear, as folks would have more of a reason to serve up their information, and would be paid less for not being the first to get to it. Plus there would be a repository of "old school" that you could get to any time that is brand new, and content creators would get paid for their works forever justifying the ridiculous copyright laws we now have in the US. categories: Looking Forward, Straight out of the cortex, Technology of Today comments   2:29:26 PM

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