Comments on: It can’t read! (Microsoft’s PMC illiterate?) http://cultureby.com/2004/09/it_cant_read_mi.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2004/09/it_cant_read_mi.html/comment-page-1#comment-7406 Grant Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:50:17 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1126#comment-7406 Liz, just a good machine for reproducing text would at this point be plenty. But it's true that text to speech would be especially useful, and save me many errors on this blog. Thanks, Grant Gabriel, But I think we need a ground up treatment, that gives us the perfect appliance, with the right fit and finish, the right visibility, the ability to comment and capture. I know, let's take some really smart people and lock them in the desert near Santa Fe. They can't come home till they come up with something. Thanks, Grant Liz, just a good machine for reproducing text would at this point be plenty. But it’s true that text to speech would be especially useful, and save me many errors on this blog. Thanks, Grant

Gabriel, But I think we need a ground up treatment, that gives us the perfect appliance, with the right fit and finish, the right visibility, the ability to comment and capture. I know, let’s take some really smart people and lock them in the desert near Santa Fe. They can’t come home till they come up with something. Thanks, Grant

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]]> By: Liz http://cultureby.com/2004/09/it_cant_read_mi.html/comment-page-1#comment-7404 Liz Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:37:45 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1126#comment-7404 having a really great text-to-voice app/appliance IS going to be a giant....not because of the 10% (MOL) of kids who are bright AND dyslexic, but because the boomers are getting old. That's right, old. Me. Having a thingy that can recite the phone book to you, read to you as you drive or whatever. It hasn't happened yet. Kurzweil 3000 (text to voice machine) is struggling to put together a database of scanned text w/copyright protections. having a really great text-to-voice app/appliance IS going to be a giant….not because of the 10% (MOL) of kids who are bright AND dyslexic, but because the boomers are getting old.

That’s right, old. Me. Having a thingy that can recite the phone book to you, read to you as you drive or whatever.

It hasn’t happened yet.

Kurzweil 3000 (text to voice machine) is struggling to put together a database of scanned text w/copyright protections.

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