| 65 | | rb-10 which is not as dexterous as the fingers are. A good solution would be to use speech recognition, |
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| 66 | | rb-11 especially since most of these devices often already have a built-in microphone. |
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| 67 | | rb-12 Many phones already offer the possibility of so-called voice dialing. |
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| 68 | | rb-13 A major stumbling block is the still limited computing power of these phones. |
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| 69 | | rb-14 One way to deal with this is to use only a limited number of available commands. |
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| 70 | | rb-15 That way the software only needs to compare the voice input with a small number of possible options. |
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| 71 | | rb-16 Modern computers have far more computing power than hand-held devices. |
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| 72 | | rb-17 That means that when a programmer wants to write speech recognition software, |
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| 73 | | rb-18 it is necessary to keep in mind on which hardware the software will run. |
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| 74 | | rb-19 A full-blown computer offers a programmer the freedom to develop software |
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| 75 | | rb-20 that allows the end user to issue a wider array of commands. |
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| 76 | | rb-21 In practice this will allow end users to issue commands |
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| 77 | | rb-22 such as \"go to previous paragraph\ \"go up one paragraph\ or even \"I want to edit the previous paragraph\". |
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| 78 | | rb-23 Where all these commands might lead to the same result on that powerful PC, |
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| 79 | | rb-24 the software on a hand-held device might only respond to one specific command. |
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| 80 | | rb-25 The same would be the case for other tasks such as browsing the Web, |
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| 81 | | rb-26 searching for documents in the file browser, and starting or closing programs. |
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| 82 | | rb-27 Therefore, behind your PC, \"go online\ \"start my Web browser\ or \"visit my home page\ |
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| 83 | | rb-28 might all be valid commands, whereas on your mobile phone you would have to stick to \"run browser\". |
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| 84 | | rb-29 Obviously, when running a file browser the same logic would apply. |
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| 85 | | rb-30 When working on a powerful PC or laptop |
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| 86 | | rb-31 commands like \"go to the folder with my University documents and open my thesis\ might soon be quite common. |
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| 87 | | rb-32 It is however likely that on mobile devices we will have to use more rudimentary commands |
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| 88 | | rb-33 like \"go up one folder\ \"open the folder University\ or \"open document thesis\". |
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| | 65 | rb-10 which is not as dexterous as the fingers are. |
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| | 66 | rb-11 A good solution would be to use speech recognition, |
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| | 67 | rb-12 especially since most of these devices often already have a built-in microphone. |
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| | 68 | rb-13 Many phones already offer the possibility of so-called voice dialing. |
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| | 69 | rb-14 A major stumbling block is the still limited computing power of these phones. |
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| | 70 | rb-15 One way to deal with this is to use only a limited number of available commands. |
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| | 71 | rb-16 That way the software only needs to compare |
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| | 72 | rb-17 the voice input with a small number of possible options. |
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| | 73 | rb-18 Modern computers have far more computing power than hand-held devices. |
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| | 74 | rb-19 That means that when a programmer wants to write speech recognition software, |
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| | 75 | rb-20 it is necessary to keep in mind on which hardware the software will run. |
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| | 76 | rb-21 A full-blown computer offers a programmer the freedom to develop software |
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| | 77 | rb-22 that allows the end user to issue a wider array of commands. |
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| | 78 | rb-23 In practice this will allow end users to issue commands such as "go to previous paragraph" |
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| | 79 | rb-24 "go up one paragraph" or even "I want to edit the previous paragraph". |
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| | 80 | rb-25 Where all these commands might lead to the same result on that powerful PC, |
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| | 81 | rb-26 the software on a hand-held device might only respond to one specific command. |
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| | 82 | rb-27 The same would be the case for other tasks such as browsing the Web, |
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| | 83 | rb-28 searching for documents in the file browser, and starting or closing programs. |
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| | 84 | rb-29 Therefore, behind your PC, "go online" "start my Web browser" or "visit my home page" |
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| | 85 | rb-30 might all be valid commands, |
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| | 86 | rb-31 whereas on your mobile phone you would have to stick to "run browser". |
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| | 87 | rb-32 Obviously, when running a file browser the same logic would apply. |
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| | 88 | rb-33 When working on a powerful PC or laptop |
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| | 89 | rb-34 commands like "go to the folder with my University documents |
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| | 90 | rb-35 and open my thesis might soon be quite common. |
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| | 91 | rb-36 It is however likely that on mobile devices we will have to use more rudimentary commands |
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| | 92 | rb-37 like "go up one folder" "open the folder University" or "open document thesis". |
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