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Re: [ECS] VR Possibilities Carl Keyes Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:23:35 PST

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Kevin,

I'm a huge fan of VR and love "trying" to use it.
I agree with your ratings but I think they
all have a long way to go to be truly reliable.
For me it's not so much the recognition area
that needs the work but in it's application.
HAL is on the right track with it's ability
to do phrase analysis.

"Who won the Giants game?"
"Whats on Cinemax at 8:00pm?"
"What time did my wife call?"

This is where the real meat of VR lies
not so much in it's replicating push buttons.


later,

Carl



>From: "Kevin Keast" <kevin_keast@zdnetmail.com>
>Reply-To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>Subject: [ECS] VR Possibilities
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:29:45 -0800
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>Hello All,
>
>I brought this topic up a while ago but want to throw it out to the 
list again.
>
>I am not using VR for my personnal system at the moment however I am 
working with Dragon's Naturally speaking and HAL for a disabled client.  
Dragons Naturally speaking is a really good VR program!  When trained, 
it really does not miss much at all.  I have not used the MS VR much.  
When working with this it seems just 'okay' and I know you can't expect 
a superb system for free.  What is the future for ECS and VR?  I don't 
know a whole lot about how ECS works with VR (the programming side) but 
reading the manual gives the impression that you should be able to 
configure other VR programs to work with it. (Are we talking about for a 
user or a programmer?)  Unless the docs have changed since I last read 
them there is no guidance for configuring VR with another VR program.  
It is like ECS is currently hard-wired to MS SDK.  Is anyone using VR 
other than MS VR?  If ECS could easily work with other VR programs this 
would put it in another HA class by itself (Some serious potential for 
the new HA user I would think).  Direct compatibility with some leading 
VR programs would be valuable.  How about HomeVoice and ECS?  It seems 
that HomeVoice is in the lead in the area of VR right now for HA.  HAL 
is not doing very well.
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>For VR, IMHO I would rank the programs as such:
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>1.  Dragon's Naturally Speaking
>2.  HomeVoice
>3.  MS SDK
>4.  HAL2000
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>Mark:  This is meant to be completely constructive.  
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