speech recognition air and apology with long-winded explanation Re: [Accessibility] Call to Arms

[Eric S. Johansson]

 On 7/28/2010 5:22 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I don't believe I was arguing against your goals. I was arguing against your 
> lack of path to them or choices of innocence but I'll respect your request to 
> express things in a more constructive fashion.  I will try to find a better 
> way to point out when you are on a potential path to failure like you are now 
> as well as potential paths to success.

bloody recognition errors

choices of innocence was a misrecognition. I can't remember what I was saying 
but is probably something about lack of compassion to the disabled or putting 
concern for the disabled first.  I'm only guessing because I really don't 
remember. Illustrates the need for a significant audio log in conjunction with 
application use with speech recognition and content spoken. You see, we're 
talking about is seriously different environment than the classic GUI. Can you 
imagine instant messenger/IRC environment where you go back in time to correct a 
line? You need to do that if using speech recognition to fix mistakes.  Let them 
implies others have the right to go back and change what they said in response 
to your correction thereby erasing whole sequences of writing from the memory of 
channel.  Very cool user interface/user interaction. Gives you a chance to 
retract a statement and make an apology thereby creating a chain where 
communications that may have been close by anger/testosterone can be reopened 
and the harsh bits are expunged. Imagine the same thing applied to e-mail. That 
the  sender can send a second message to overwrite the first while leaving an 
audit trail. That's very cool in my book. It's constructive social engineering. 
It's also cool way to sneak in cryptography.

the error above highlights one of the problems with speech recognition, you can 
get a statement which sounds completely correct[1] but is not what the person 
said giving an entirely wrong impression. The biggest errors I'm finding here 
are on vacation, wrong  verb tense, and a version of sense (negation, and  
inversion of sense (sentence meaning).

--- eric

[1] in NaturallySpeaking the word correct is used to invoke of right correction 
sequences. So if you say something like completely correct but not what the 
person said and put a space after correct, the subsequent phrase is used as a 
search key. Very annoying and yet another reason why short phrases are bad

I'm sure there are other misrecognition errors lurking in my text