New Websites that talk to YOU!!

Booner! · 2 Feb 2007 at 16:16

Follow link below, It is like a plugin and reads out wepages to you. Seems pretty cool. I am about to take this on as a project for my company and use it for us.

what you guys think of it. Pretty funky!!

http://www.talklets.com/index.html

Solari · 2 Feb 2007 at 16:24

Wow, that is awesome. Speech technology on computers has compe a long way since Superior Software's efforts on the BBC Micro!

Booner! · 2 Feb 2007 at 16:56

It is pretty good isn't it! Much better than i expected! It's worth a go if you havnt tried it yet!

I think this will really help people with disability's and also lazy people like me!

colinuk · 2 Feb 2007 at 16:57

We, here at work, use a program that does something liek that, called JAWS. if you move your mouse over anything, it talks and tells you what you opionting at and reads any text attached to it.

its very nice, but takes more system resources that norton!

Bash · 2 Feb 2007 at 16:57

Type in "Delete all my files on my Vista PC"

Booner! · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:00

Bash said:
Type in "Delete all my files on my Vista PC"

You laugh now, but i have a link somewhere to where that actually happened, someone emailed him a link to the audio file and he lost all his files

Solari · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:07

Booner! said:
You laugh now, but i have a link somewhere to where that actually happened, someone emailed him a link to the audio file and he lost all his files

I don't get it? :confused:

Chronos-X · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:12

Solari said:
I don't get it?

Windows Vista has a voice recognition feature. By being sent an audio file with the instructions, if you had the feature on, if your microphone could pick up the sound from the speakers and if the moon happened to be pink then theoretically you would have a 0.0001% chance of some files being deleted.

Solari · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:14

Ahhh thanks for clearing that up.

"Reboot my PC" or "Format my C drive" might be a good one to send out then

ElRazur · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:15

Can it read out porn website and what they do?...Serious question.

Booner! · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:24

Chronos-X said:
theoretically you would have a 0.0001% chance of some files being deleted.

that is why i found the article so funny!

MasterMike · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:57

"In Soviet Russia, website surfs you!"

PeterNem · 2 Feb 2007 at 18:02

colinuk said:
We, here at work, use a program that does something liek that, called JAWS. if you move your mouse over anything, it talks and tells you what you opionting at and reads any text attached to it.

its very nice, but takes more system resources that norton!

I know a guy who is 100% blind and using JAWS and another peice of similar software manages to read and produce documentation to amazing effect - it's very impressive.

themistry · 2 Feb 2007 at 18:09

Booner! said:
Follow link below, It is like a plugin and reads out wepages to you. Seems pretty cool. I am about to take this on as a project for my company and use it for us.

what you guys think of it. Pretty funky!!

http://www.talklets.com/index.html

Wow the speed and accuracy of that is really impressive!

TM

malfunkshun · 2 Feb 2007 at 18:12

Booner! said:
You laugh now, but i have a link somewhere to where that actually happened, someone emailed him a link to the audio file and he lost all his files

Except higher level functions, such as that, require you to use the mouse/keyboard. He could, however, have lost all his mp3s etc.

wiltonson · 2 Feb 2007 at 18:27

nokia 5500 has this reading feature. i think the female voice is the same.

rayer · 2 Feb 2007 at 19:00

does it say 'Greeting Professor Faulken, shall we play a game ?'