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10-02-2010, 11:41 PM | #16 |
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good idea for me , now i use my nose lol
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10-03-2010, 12:06 AM | #17 |
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They should've included this method as a "feature" in their advertisements. Especially on the newest generation kindle, since the buttons are so much easier to press with the nose. Imagine that cute girl on the beach in their ads slapping the kindle against her face to turn the page! Lol! |
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More seriously, considering the processor in the K3, I doubt anyone will be running speech recognition on it. All the "Wouldn't it be great if the K3 could..." threads miss a key point. Yes it would, if you were willing to pay three times the price to buy the equivalent of a small laptop's worth of hardware. For $139/$189, you get a computer more powerful than my first 80386-driven desktop, but not by a lot. It might have the power of an early Pentium. You may note that not a lot of high powered apps ran on those. Regards, Jack Tingle |
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10-03-2010, 11:49 AM | #19 |
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Voice annotation/memos at least. Voice navigation would be helpful, even if all it did was turn pages and select items from Home, start/stop TTS.
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10-03-2010, 12:38 PM | #20 |
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I kindly disagree with Jack. The K3 has the same speed processor and the same amount of RAM as the original iPhone and iPod Touch, yet those units can run speech recognition apps very effectively.
I wonder, though, how much battery power it would take to have a constant voice-recognition process running in the background... |
10-03-2010, 01:10 PM | #21 | |
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I found this letter (quoted in part): Hannah S. Ross, Esq. Office of General Counsel Princeton University 120 Alexander Road, Second Floor Princeton, NJ 08540 Re: Letter of Resolution, D.J. No. 202-48-213 Princeton University Dear Ms. Ross: As you know, this matter began with complaints filed by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the American Council of the Blind (ACB) with the Department of Justice, on behalf of the organizations and their members who are current and prospective college students, alleging that Princeton University has violated title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § 12182, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. 5 947(a), by using the Kindle DX, an innovative, hand-held electronic book reader that is not accessible to students with visual impairments, in a classroom setting. According to the complaints, Princeton University is offering a pilot program that began in the fall 2009 semester. The object of this pilot is to test the utility of the Kindle DX in a classroom setting. Ummm, even at the risk of incurring the wrath of anyone who is vision-impaired, can anyone tell me how the Kindle is less accessible than a standard printed textbook? |
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As for printed textbooks, there has been assistive technology for that for awhile. Sure, you could line an optical scanner/reader up on a Kindle just like it was a book (except books don't have menus to navigate...) but the point is that under the law, technology paid for by taxpayer dollars needs to fulfill some basic accessibility requirements, rather than putting up insurmountable barriers. And yes, Kindle is powerful enough to handle simple voice recognition. It was being done on IBM PC-AT's years ago, and Kindle is at least 2 or 3 orders of magnitude faster, with more RAM. Last edited by tomsem; 10-03-2010 at 10:47 PM. |
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