Comments on: Speak up! Google is listening http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/latest-news/speak-up-google-is-listening/ Latest news from Webeden Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Alison Cross http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/latest-news/speak-up-google-is-listening/#comment-753 Alison Cross Tue, 05 May 2009 12:33:36 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=515#comment-753 Listen, if it didn't understand your accent saying webeden, what chance do you think I've got of being understood with my dulcet Glaswegian tones?! The Nintendo DS brain-training games don't seem to recognise Scottish voices endlessly repeating the word 'red' either :-D AX Listen, if it didn’t understand your accent saying webeden, what chance do you think I’ve got of being understood with my dulcet Glaswegian tones?!

The Nintendo DS brain-training games don’t seem to recognise Scottish voices endlessly repeating the word ‘red’ either :-D

AX

]]> By: admin http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/latest-news/speak-up-google-is-listening/#comment-724 admin Fri, 01 May 2009 21:18:57 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=515#comment-724 You're right. On our test tho' its got a long way to go... Can you get your hands on an iphone to try it out? Ken You’re right.

On our test tho’ its got a long way to go… Can you get your hands on an iphone to try it out?

Ken

]]> By: Alison Cross http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/latest-news/speak-up-google-is-listening/#comment-717 Alison Cross Fri, 01 May 2009 15:59:30 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=515#comment-717 I heard somewhere that the next big thing in blogging would be oral/aural ....bye bye Twitter! ..... so it makes sense for Google to look in that direction. Also, why should blind people or the physically disabled, who find it difficult enough getting out and about, be penalised - this represents a step forward in inclusivity (is that a word?!) for less able groups - who, after all, have got money to spend just like everyone else. Best AX I heard somewhere that the next big thing in blogging would be oral/aural ….bye bye Twitter! ….. so it makes sense for Google to look in that direction.

Also, why should blind people or the physically disabled, who find it difficult enough getting out and about, be penalised – this represents a step forward in inclusivity (is that a word?!) for less able groups – who, after all, have got money to spend just like everyone else.

Best

AX

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