[geeks] Woah!

[Ross Alexander]

> > > Squeak has a built in voice synthesiser.  I wonder if there has been
> > > anywork done on simple speach recognition (ala what was done on the
> > > Quadra AVs and early PowerMacs, as opposed to full fledged things like
> > > Via Voice or Dragon Dictate)...  
> > 
> > Uhm, that stuff is still in OS9 and OS X.
> 
> Really?  I have never actually seen it in use on anything newer that a
> PowerMac 8100, even though it stands to reason that they wouldn't just
> drop it.  I don't actually use anything newer than 8.1 currently,
> though someone is supposed to be getting me a copy of 8.6 one of these days.

I've set up the chess game that comes with OS X to accept moves via via
voice commands. Pretty cool stuff.


-- 
Ross Alexander
ross at two-cats.net