Thursday, August 5, 2004
One Man, His Dog, His Laptop, And A Pocket PC
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 09:30 AM
"This is an attempt to dictate a document using voice recognition. I am doing this slightly differently to how I would normally. For a start, I am also walking the dog. Therefore, it is not possible to look at my computer in the normal way, so I have put it in my rucksack. This makes it impossible to see the screen so I have had to resort to other means. I am therefore viewing my laptop screen via a wireless network connection from my Dell Axim PDA. From there, I am using a VNC (Virtual Network computing) software client to create a remote display of the laptop screen, on the PDA. When I require some mouse control, I have a Hand Track portable trackerball from Trust, or I can also use the touch screen of the PDA to control where I am on the laptop screen. The voice recognition software is Dragon NaturallySpeaking XP, running on Windows 98. And, guess what. It all works - well, mostly."
A rather unorthodox use of a Pocket PC -- and perhaps the upcoming micro PCs might help him out in building a slicker solution -- but you've got to root for someone who is willing to try this, because he can. ;)
A rather unorthodox use of a Pocket PC -- and perhaps the upcoming micro PCs might help him out in building a slicker solution -- but you've got to root for someone who is willing to try this, because he can. ;)
