Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror

Comment Try Tazti Speech Recognition Software (Score 1) 93

by aravenwood (#55927211) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is There a Useful Voice-Activated PC?
I sympathize. There aren't a lot of options for people with disability or disease conditions that impair their mobility who still want to interact with their PC. Most speech products are transcription products, and then there's Cortana which I've never really used. But there is one product I can recommend, called "tazti" speech recognition. I know a number of disabled people who use tazti to control their PC and play video games. It's *not* dictation software like Dragon, only command and control for the PC. You create custom speech commands and then specify what they do - Basic PC functions, mouse and keyboard, sending keystrokes, running programs or opening files or bat files etc. It doesn't control mouse movement but it lets you click and double click the mouse. And you can group commands together for profiles - for example you can have a different custom profile for each program or game, and you turn on and off the profiles using your voice. And you can download some pre-build profiles. The other big thing about tazti is that's it highly customizable. You an create Macro commands activated by voice for games or programs as well. And they have good customer support as well. It's really neat, and while it may not provide 100% coverage for your mom, it covers a whole lot of ground and may be really helpful to her, a big improvement over what what she currently has. Anyway, like I said, I know disabled gamers who use it to play games, and people with disabilities who use it to interact with their PC. It's worth checking out. The URL is https://tazti.com/.

Comment Re: Dates? (Score 2) 127

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that the earliest documents were related to Maimonides, just that there were very early manuscripts and also his documents were also discovered there. When I was at the British Museum they had a letter of Maimonides prominently displayed. I wonder if it was acquired from the Cairo Genizah trove.

Submission + - Computer Network Piecing Together a Jigsaw of Ancient Jewish Lore

Submitted by aravenwood
aravenwood writes: The New York Times and the Times of Israel report today that artificial intelligence and a network of 100 computers in a basement in Tel Aviv University are being used to match 320,000 fragments of documents dating as far back as the 9th century in an attempt to reassemble the original documents. Since the trove of documents from the Jewish community of Cairo was discovered in 1896 only about 4000 of them have been pieced together, and the hope is that the new technique, which involves taking photographs of the fragments and using image recognition and other algorithms to match the language, spacing, and handwriting style of the text along with the shape of the fragment to other fragments could revolutionize not only the study of this trove documents, which has been split up into 67 different collections around the world since it's discovery, but also how humanities disciplines study documents like these. They expect to make 12 billion comparisons of different fragments before the project is completed — they have already perform 2.8 billion. Among the documents, some dating from 950, was the discovery of letters by Moses Maimonides and that Cairene Jews were involved in the import of flax, linen, and sheep cheese from Sicily.

Slashdot Top Deals

Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love.

Close