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if that is as good as speech recognition gets I think I could do 
better in probably about a month of programming -- I have been thinking 
about this problem for more than two decades -- while at apple computer 
by a push to get speech recognition to be part of every Macintosh 
-- but was unsuccessful

Sunanda - there is already virtual keyboard available, but you need 
clean desk for it ... dunno if it is usable at all, but fits nicely 
PDAs etc. - it is projection technology ...

I have seen that to -- an interesting way to input characters

Seen it too, thanks, Petr......So won't work easily on a train or 
plane.

there are so many keyboard designs that come and go over the years

http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/Products.asp

Designs coming and going .....That's why I'd like to keep the keyboard 
that works for me........But only after I find it.

But then I still use a personal fountain pen rather than utility 
biros.  May be I'm old-fashioned.

I just noticed that we are in the web development room

what we probably need is a weekend chat room

for on topic, we started as keyboards hooked to the Internet / Web...

if they made this text recognition software in little better -- and 
I think they do but it does not come from Microsoft -- it would be 
a good way to communicate in All the old me hold me all the fault 
may

I like Mozilla's Find-as-type facility ... you simply start writing 
word and cursor moves around the screen - F3 - next occurance, enter 
- choose, backspace - back to previous page etc

altme

one marketing thing Microsoft used to dis OS2Warp's integration of 
Speech is that in the office, talking is distractive to others, unless 
all have private offices.

yes very true

Speech recognition make best sense in car and at home.

speech recognition is impossible to use in the car

and rebol may make speech recognition programs confused.

eg. send [steve-:-efish] "lunch appt"

I have tried it

should it launch a program to send the email or should it write the 
code?

yeksoon - inteersting point ....

it is amazing to see the sentence is that speech recognition software 
composes when there is a lot of random noise in the background -- 
as a radio frequency engineer this  is very puzzling-- the waveforms 
of speech are very distinct and clear compared to random background 
noises

does such sw uses wavelet transformations?

that's right I was going to try to program -- testing

what are you working on in rebol currently, if I may ask? New things, 
fixing bugs, etc?

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it got more of that than I expected

I'm actually quite amazed that [work so well

but percent did not ...

someone at Microsoft must have wanted to be sure that we could speak 
in rebol easily

you would need some escape char :-)

now if I could just get it to capitalize rebol I would be happy

:-)) I think it was by-design ....

let me just tried using the word [in a sentence -- interesting

they do not ever actually spell out the word [it is always assumed 
to be the punctuation mark

() [] brace embrace

two out of three isn't bad

I think see programmers would have a problem -- because brace does 
not show up as punctuation

I will move out of this room now -- sorry about the distraction to 
your conversation

wrt speech recognition: I use Dragon Naturallyspeaking quite some 
time, and it works very well. Takes some training but after a few 
horus it is really good. http://www.scansoft.com

I use it when writing reports etc. Just work one day at home and 
a report is finished. What's funny is that I get less remrk on my 
reports/plans when dictated than when written. That's reason enough 
to use it :-)

With regards to keyboards that don't have a numeric pad (or indeed 
function keys), I'm using a "Happy Hacking Lite 2"; a bit pricey 
though but the preferred keyboard of many Linux enthusiasts. Check 
out http://shop.store.yahoo.com/pfuca-store/haphackeylit1.htmlfor 
a picture.

efish & yeksoon - numberpad not a problem for left handers. Perhaps 
a right-handed keyboard should be made ;-)

numeric pad is used a lot in accounts. Recently I saw a keyboard 
where the number pad was separate from the main keyboard (wireless 
too!) A good solution.

& once it is separated.. it may as well have a calculator display 
too, so it can function with or without the pc.

About keyboard centeredness:

I think it is a problem, I usually position my keyboard in a way 
that the typing space is centerd for me, and the numeric keypad sticks 
out to the right.

Of course then you have trouble reaching for the mouse. So now I 
use the mouse lefthanded ...

Sorry Allen, I overlooked that you had written something nearly to 
the same effect.

Need sunshades when Ingo comes here!

My eyes are bleeding.

I had a perfectly good colour setting until I had to move to rebol3 
world ...