Oliver_Henniges - 6:05 am on Apr 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

Understanding natural languages has always been the Vietnam or Iraque of computer sciences.

Does anyone in here actually USE any of these existing voice-based tools yet?

I even got fed up with my thesaurus a few years ago. I used so many words in my written language, which it didn't know, that inserting these into the dictionary would have taken much more time than that saved by the programm correcting minor spelling mistakes. I turned it off immediately, and after these experiences on the mere lexical level, I decided not to buy any of these voice-recognition-based little helpers. Lexipixel's example gives a good glimpse.

Does anyone recall "You just don't understand." (1990) from Deborah Tannen? If google adds another patent capable of deciding male and female from who is calling, please wake me up.