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From: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic media
Message-ID: <436574d8.1b147@apollo.COM>
Date: 23 May 89 16:43:00 GMT
References: <8905102249.AA21809@stdc.jhuapl.edu> <5036@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
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In article <5036@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman) writes:
>Has anyone ever though about adding small-vocabulary speech recognition
>technology to telivision?

The trick would be getting it to listen to you, rather than the
people on TV.  Accidental stuff would be bad enough, but imagine
what happens when commercials start instructing your set to turn
up the volume!
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept      responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate   everyone else's.