[ Thanks to Bonnie
Greene for this link. ]
“The combination of IBM, KDE and ViaVoice reads more like a
jumbled eye chart than a partnership between Big Blue and one of
open source software’s best known desktops.”
“But this alphabetic anomaly could yield significant results for
the open source community. IBM announced today at Comdex Las Vegas
that IBM would join the new KDE League and partner with Trolltech,
Mandrake and others to continue work on IBM’s ViaVoice voice
recognition software for the KDE desktop.”
“The Technical Lead in IBM’s Linux Technology Center, Sheila
Harnett, went a step further and predicted that the entire KDE
desktop and its applications would soon be speech-enabled through
this partnership.“
“We are planning to have that ready and the integration done by
the middle of next year,” Harnett said. “As KDE is a desktop for a
lot of different footprints of desktops, the traditional fat
clients and thin clients, down to even smaller types of desktops,
speech becomes more and more important.”