IBM Technology Advisor Microsoft Visual. Evolving speech recognition technology is driving transparent computing, making it easier for people to interact with computers. As we start the new century, the IT world is experiencing a paradigm shift in how humans interact with technology, in large part due to speech recognition. Speech recognition, which is already transforming how we communicate with our PCs, will change the way we do business and access information. The growth of speech recognition technology in the past five years is amazing.
People can speak in a natural voice to interact with their computers.
Transparent computing aims right at the growing needs of the business and user communities. At the same time, users need consistent, convenient access to the Internet wherever they are. With predictions of 600 million PCs and 2 billion networked handheld devices by 2003, the IT environment is primed for changing to a new conversational user interface. Today's professional is forced to interact with several machines throughout an average day, whether talking on a cellular phone, sending a fax, or programming a household appliance. Most of those machines have different interfaces that aren't compatible with one another.