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

“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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