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The Human Touch Striving for Smooth Interaction
The Human Touch NPR has a story on the new Ask Jeeves search engine, which is apparently making efforts in the area of voice technologies -- Giving Computer Voices a 'Human Touch'. This is a somewhat drastic step for a search engine (churning out wads of page references), as it turns into a knowledge base (containing unique precise answers that can be spoken verbally). The article describes the improvement of speech technology, which has been generally geared towards achieving such realistic human-like results. On a similar topic, the NY Times presents a new type of digital museum, in New 'Smart' Galleries, Wireless and Web-Friendly. The interaction with the user is also emphasized, via the web interface and "social computing". | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Tuesday 30 April, 13:59 Reply