Nicole Simon's Useful Sounds - A podcast about the new digital worlds and all its gadgets

Summary:
About what I have been doing lately as well as my experiences with Microsoft's idea of speech recognition.

Are you still there? Useful Sounds has moved over to usefulsounds.com - please update your links as well as check your podcatcher. :)

All podcasts entries have been moved over to this web page and all blog postings should be merged to cruel to be kind

Redirecting the feed: Shoutouts to Podnova for handling of the feeds as it is supposed to be!

Buuh for Odeo! I had to kill the old feed and am not able to transfer you, sorry. (Link to the new page on odeo.)

Some comments on my recent trip to the States
- Steep streets in San Francisco (try of picture proof one and two) and touristy stuff
- The museum of modern art - nothing I can relate to
- The Vegas Style: "European" structures in San Jose

World Cup: unexpected flag explosion all over the place, my stay at the Coca-Cola flat and a new addiction to Coke Blak

My failed experiments with English Speech Recognition
- testing especially the MS Speech Engine API
- why can't I train such an application with my own writing? What better way to train it with your own voice and style?
- I don't mind training an application - I know I don't fit into your saved profiles! But at least I am consistent in my speaking.
- stupid training lessons from Microsoft for voice training - who talks like H.G. Wells or Aesop?

A teaser for next episode:
In a world of infinite choice, context - not content - is king.

Claiming the Odeo Channel (odeo/97e6010dc9627079)

comments (3):

What about handwriting? Do you like it? I guess if you have some exercise in it you won't get tired too fast. (The drawback is, that you have to have a graphics tablet or something like that for the actual input and to figure out how to install and use it. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306906/ (for MS Win XP) might help.))

And you won't hate those who stop audio podcasting, will you? ;)
Fairground 04 09 06 - 04:38
some more thoughts:
Though you might quite like it to speak to your computer because you seem to be like audiophile. (I didn't like when I tried it some years ago, but it might be nicer to work with more modern programs.)

Nevertheless it might be a good idea to have different possiblities of input, so you can switch them if you get bored or exhausted by one of them.

(By the way: It should be possible to record a new useful sound and handwrite some headwords about the same time... No noise from the keyboard that spoils the recording and everything ready to blog after recording :) )
Fairground 04 09 06 - 04:50
Please! You have a beautiful voice. If typing is more comfortable for you, do that first, and then read it.
dmelliott 27 10 06 - 08:05

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