[OT] Re: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

[Richmond]

On 11/16/2010 09:31 PM, David Glasgow wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2010, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote:
>
>> Why does it remind me of voice recognition software? . . . and that has, to a large
>> extent, died a death.
> Nah.  Must be your accent ;-)

Ah dinnae jalouse qhuats thon ettlin eftir impunging "my accent": 
'ekshully' as a bi-cultural
Anglo-Scot I can give 'em the old Public school flannel as well as the 
Orcadian sheep farmer;

funny how the "Valley Boys" over 'there' in California, haven't 
recognised how vitally important
either of those accents/dialects is to the future of computer 
programming . . .  :)

> I use Dictate for all my reports.  Much faster and more accurate than my typing, and no more aches and pains.

The rate I wibble on I would suffer from repetitive jaw syndrome . . .

> Now its the *thinking* that is the bottleneck.

I could never work out what 'thinking' entailed; somehow I managed the 
thousands of lines of
code in my Devawriter suite of programs on instinct and coffee alone . . .

> Best Wishes,
>
> David Glasgow
> Carlton Glasgow Partnership
>
> i-psych.co.uk

Funny; with that address you don't sound like a 'valley boy'; even 
though I can say some reasonably
offensive things about Milton Keynes . . .  :)

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Trick Question: now that Linus Torvalds lives in California do all other 
programmers over there have
to go to "Finishing" school ?