Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!scratch From: scratch@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Steven J Owens) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: The Future of Voice UIMS (Re: Looking Backwards) Message-ID: <21685@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 17 Jan 90 19:08:27 GMT References: <9001010220.AA17906@world.std.com> Reply-To: scratch@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Steven J Owens) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 34 In article webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes: > Employees will translate said pronouncements into text and then play them > through an Elmer Fudd synthesizer. > 3) 60% of the messages on Usenet will have been filtered thru a system > based on data extracted Kathleen Turner's Jessica Rabbit voice from a Roger > Rabbit video tape before posting. Cute, really cute... > 12) The study of verbal behavior will become a recognized social > science and a common liberal arts major -- it will be called > Rhetorictology. Where're the smileys?? As a communications major, having taken classes such as Theory of Rhetoric and Rhetorical Processes, I'm afraid I find this idea of yours a bit quaint, but amusing. It may well be that the rise of voice-controlled computers and the new availability of hard data to base research on may pump new life into solid applied research on rhetorical processes. And a new area of specialty pertaining to those specific proceses may well come into being. But I think you'll find that there are already plenty of people who have worked in that area - you'd be amazed at what has already been learned about interpersonal communication, something which people take very much for granted. I have some comments about a possible direction for computer interfacing, but I'll post that separately... Steven J. Owens | Scratch@Pittvms | Scratch@unix.cis.pitt.edu "There's a long hard road and a full, hard drive / And a sector there where I feel alive / Every bit of every byte / Is written down once on the night / Networking, I'm user friendly..." -- Warren Zevon, Networking, Transverse City