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...recent developments in speech recognition mean we don't have to wait for the 23rd century before we can chat with our PCs. Thanks to several new software packages, you can start to put aside your keyboard at last...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Is Voice Recognition Possible? | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...there is one problem with using dictation instead of a keyboard, it's the effect it may have on your writing style. I tried writing a paper for a seminar with the program, only to find that my diction and phraseology when I speak is apparently nothing like my style of writing...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Is Voice Recognition Possible? | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...sheer audaciousness. McCartney, who cannot read music and readily confesses to having attended only a handful of classical concerts, has been no less forthright in acknowledging the extensive role played by four "musical associates." Jazz musician Steve Lodder and classical composer David Matthews transcribed and edited his original computerized keyboard noodlings; classical saxophonist John Harle "advised me on the structure of the piece"; film composer Richard Rodney Bennett (Murder on the Orient Express) served as "overall supervisor of orchestration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: HELP! HE'S NOT DOING FINE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

GEOFOX-ONE: Geofox, based in Britain, came up with a neat idea: include a keyboard and touchpad. The handheld's 6.8-in. screen is bigger than traditionally tiny portable displays. Due out in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Nov. 3, 1997 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...premise for a cautionary science-fiction tale. And anyone who has cheated on an expense account can identify with a character like Hawke's, working a much bigger scam on a bureaucracy quiveringly alert to genetic impostors. A lost eyelash, a bit of exfoliated skin left on his keyboard could undo him--especially when the cops, led by a very querulous Alan Arkin, suddenly descend on his facility and, as they investigate a murder, start subjecting everyone's detritus to genetic spot checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CHIPS OFF THE OLD TEST TUBE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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