] "Apple has done a marvelous job with the recognition and
] control systems, and now that you can script the Internet
] so easily in OS X, it's straightforward to build useful
] voice-driven commands that invoke external as well as
] local services. "

XML + Voice commands.... This is a fun article... There might be something interesting in here, but I need to think about it.

- This can be more efficient then using the mouse for starting programs and dealing with windows.
- Dialog box buttons/web buttons should always be speakable.
- This is interesting when combined with voice messaging. It would be nice if I could do voice chat with someone while working on something else with the keyboard.
- Addressing the computer everytime is lame. I should be able to make it start listening with something specific and then make it stop with something else.
- Speech is most useful when you are not at your desktop:
- In the car: There is stuff out on the net for running itunes with speech. This is useful when you want to run music off your mac while driving.
- Around the house: If you had an infrastructure for microphones and speakers you could get your computer to do things while you cook in the kitchen, such as play music or read email to you.
- There needs to be a way to get the thing to read stuff to you without selecting the text with a mouse...
- X10 interoperability would allow you to control your house with speech.
- It needs to automatically detect ambient noise levels and raise or lower the microphone volume in kind.

O'Reilly Network: Speakable Web Services [Nov. 08, 2002]