[Bradford] Ubuntu's new Head-up display & no menu system

[David Carpenter]

Thank goodness you're not Scottish!
Burnistoun Voice Recognition Elevator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQHzIQ1jV0
3mins!

David


On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:15 +0000, Brian wrote:
> Let's hope that they cater for different accents. I've found few
> speech recognition systems that work for me. I've taken the Android
> one off my phone to create more space. I sometimes test my phone
> system with the US 'Tell Me' service. That isn't bad but I do put on a
> US accent for some menus. No matter, there are so many people, from
> the south of England, that I hear on BBC News and Radio Four, who
> speak mid-atlantic, who will probably be just fine with a US accent. I
> am referring to those who say ged, gedding, conservadive, hosbidal,
> Peeder,Scoddish, Bridish etc. etc. - not to mention the American
> 'leverage'.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldonkin at gmail.com>
> To: BradfordLinuxUserGroup <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
> Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2012, 12:46
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Ubuntu's new Head-up display & no menu system
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Brian <bradlug at techchico.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > pcpro.co.uk: "Ubuntu rips up drop-down menus"
> > Text + a video.
> > http://tinyurl.com/882wsy5
> 
> Given the current state of FOSS speech recognition, this is going to
> be a disaster for anyone not brought up in the central USA...
> 
> Robert
> 
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