[Mind's Eye] Re: Writing Ideas

Incidentally, Intel gave away the code for its lip reading software in
2003 and attempts to integrate facial speech and sound had been made
then,tough I don't know of any on the market (haven't looked).
Currently, if I say something like 'Islamic banking still leaves its
poor poor' I get something Orn would ban me for. It's the non-
technical development of ideas and writing that interests me.

On Sep 29, 10:25 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My work with other people has usually been disappointing.  It's
> limited to a little university teaching and reading graduate
> submissions in the main.  Trying to write with other people is broadly
> a disaster and I'm in need of getting my own into focus.  I've been
> ill with energy sapped and the exercise I need to take hasn't helped
> much yet, though the new dog is a real treat when not eating my
> socks.  It's a bit of a new start.  Quite a few people write,some very
> well and This is an invitation to share and perhaps develop work
> between group members.
>
> I've tried speech-to-text software with dismal failure over the years,
> once building a monster pc with shed-loads of memory to no effect.
> More recently, trying the latest stuff on university approval, I found
> the stuff as hopeless and that it varied with my partial denture in or
> out.  This led me to the germ of an idea,which if any good I should
> patent before mentioning.  I video conference from a small netbook
> with its own webcam and colleagues use text translation when stuck for
> understanding.  This now works very well, but we obviously want voice
> translation to prevent repetitive stress injuries from the keyboard.
> I've seen some old films (silent) with a voice over lip-reading
> software - the best known are from Hitler's archive.  There's a
> product development possibility in this.
>
> I'd like to know whether this makes as instant sense to other ME
> people as me.  I haven't looked into this much as.it spurred me into a
> sub-plot in my novel and that's what I'll be up to for a while.  We
> could 'write' this 'product development'.  I'm partly suggesting this
> for real but also as a metaphor (maybe) for more developmental writing
> on our ideas generally.  I won't say more at this stage.