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We've come a long way with WePC the last few months, and we've been focused pretty tightly on the ideas in our dreams ~ to round off the last few months of posts, nothing is more appropriate...
So far the clear consensus has been what ddennisslmd created the pocket_netbook that is about 7" x 4" x1" with mulitple docking options to satisfy many markets for the PC. ASUS should do what they said and build what we wanted. There is a huge market for a pocket laptop with a touch type keyboard. Those designs above were not as popular and had as much sales potential than the pocket netbook that many have been posting about.
I also have an idea regarding the problem of ambient noise when it comes to these things -- Captain Kirk style. You only need to attach a wireless mike or resonator as a collar to the vocal area or to the chest like the icon that Kirk pushes on his chest to activate communication with the ship's computer. This picks up the vibration of our voice instead of the ambient noise and hopefully would have a more accurate translation of spoken commands.
ddennisdlmd,
I think that is a good idea to keep simple commands a built in separate program to increase reliability. For me I have tried three years in a row to use the latest Dragon Naturally speaking for home voice input and it just does not work very well. I do not personally like voice input and do not think the technology is perfected. Even it were perfected it would be only useful at home or when you are in a private place so I do not see it ever being a primary input to replace a keyboard due to privacy concerns.
I have a suggestion: If ever you do put voice command on this thing, please don't follow the path of microsoft or even dragon and other voice recognition software available in the market right now. Make one that's actually simpler to operate. It's supposed to recognize commands. The other aspects of speech recognition such as dictation/ wordprocessing are secondary. Get a different program for those things or separate them from the voice command of the machine itself. This actually works for the PDAs with the microsoft voice command for pocket pc installed. It only recognizes specific commands (less errors). You can have that fuction built in and then use a different voice recognition program for word-processing uses and the like.