27 August 2002

Dasher: zooming eyetracking text entry interface It looks like a game, it works like the the T9-dictionary in your mobile: it uses "predictions of a language model to determine how much of the world is devoted to each piece of text. Probable pieces of text are given more real-estate, so they are quick and easy to select", and it learns from you. And it's fun to play with. Just do it. 8:12:57 PM     comments

Thetrainline.com cuts call centre costs by 20% with speech recognition Virgin's Trains' Trainline sells £10m tickets a month, and the Cap Gemini-led project (with partners C&W, Nuance, Nortel Networks and Success-On-Hold) aims to speed up the transaction for punters. Here's the PR-rich Cap project case study. [via HLT] 8:11:51 PM     comments

Guardian: Did Bin Laden read Asimov? Guardian warms over old Al Qaida-inspired-by-Asimov's-Foundation-meme. Much enthusiastic and entertaining etymologic head-scratching follows (foundation, base, information base [qaida ma'lumat], database?, derridabase, etc). 7:53:42 PM     comments