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osOpinion: Speech Recognition: Freenix and Windows at a desktop crossroads

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 1, 1999

“This next revolution is speech recognition integrated with a
windowing desktop, and if Freenix desktop developers like the GNOME
and KDE teams sidestep speech integration into their systems in
order to promote the development of more applications or fancy
Window Manager graphics, they will permanently lose the desktop to
Microsoft.”

“An object broker integrating diversified objects and data types
among applications is exactly what’s needed to bring speech
recognition to the desktop, and if Freenix developers want the
UNIX desktop to
survive, or even flourish, among it’s
commercial competitors they must begin planning speech
integration into their desktop systems immediately.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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