World changing new mobile phone ?

[Exige77]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7859562.stm

Ex77

[TWSTEEL]

beats the st out of using a mobile whilst driving

[Vince Vega]

Great idea!

But dyslexia hasn't stopped at least half the people who SMS me from doing so.

[Einion Yrth]

Vince Vega said:

Great idea!

But dyslexia hasn't stopped at least half the people who SMS me from doing so.

lkn @ txt spk Id sy its n advntg

[Plotloss]

Having worked with very expensive speech to text engines in the past, even when trained they can only get to about 96% accuracy with English so I'm sceptical, if I'm honest.

[RemaL]

sounds very intresting and might make the guy lots on money if its as good as it sounds

[Einion Yrth]

Plotloss said:

Having worked with very expensive speech to text engines in the past, even when trained they can only get to about 96% accuracy with English so I'm sceptical, if I'm honest.

I wasn't wholly convinced by their guarantees that the remote site that holds your contact details was '100% secure' either TBH.

[Funk]

Einion Yrth said:

Plotloss said:

Having worked with very expensive speech to text engines in the past, even when trained they can only get to about 96% accuracy with English so I'm sceptical, if I'm honest.

I wasn't wholly convinced by their guarantees that the remote site that holds your contact details was '100% secure' either TBH.

And when you're in an area with no signal, you can't even view your contacts.

I'm sceptical of this 'everything goes online' malarkey.

[james_tigerwoods]

It's a phone - how will it change the world?

[10 Pence Short]

"It's completely hands free, when you want to send a text you just press this button..."

"Oh"

[Chairman LMAO]

10 Pence Short said:

"It's completely hands free, when you want to send a text you just press this button..."

"Oh"

my thoughts exactly

[Martial Arts Man]

So this small company have perfected voice recognition, when nobody else has managed it, despite trying ever since I can remember?

Seems unlikely to me....


Nice idea though.........if it works!


MAM

P.S. Could this be a clever way to get some investment?

[Oakey]

"It's so secret, we can't even show you it working"

I.e; It doesn't work

[Morningside]

Oakey said:

"It's so secret, we can't even show you it working"

I.e; It doesn't work

Exactly! Reminds you of these BT research mockups by futurists.

Its so top secret...But is made by IA Technology in Hereford.

BTW: Anyone want to see my water powered sky car?