Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Autotyping

Data entry is still pretty difficult on mobile devices despite the current technology that exists. If there were a better interface that used something like voice recognition, then it would significantly increase the usability and safety of these devices. Things such as texting while driving and even while walking are dangerous. Although it reduces the privacy by requiring vocal input, we certainly wouldn't eliminate typing. I dis read an article recently that Apple just bought a company, Siri, that wrote an "assistant" software for the iPhone that uses voice recognition to do things like make reservations, find out what's going on around town, or type messages. Pretty cool.

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