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From: jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic media
Message-ID: <5036@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 May 89 09:32:48 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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In article <8905102249.AA21809@stdc.jhuapl.edu> jwm@STDC.JHUAPL.EDU (Jim Meritt) writes:
> Keep working at it and you will describe the smart tv that is already on the
> market.  Don't think adding sight and sound to a computer, think adding
> a computer to the sight and sound.  The distribution and display is 
> already handled - just the processing has hurt and they are NOW working
> on that.

Has anyone ever though about adding small-vocabulary speech recognition
technology to telivision?

It would be cool to talk back to the TV.

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:James P. Salsman (jps@CAT.CMU.EDU)
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