Dragon speech recognition now available for iPhone- apparently it’s a bit pants, and it doesn’t look like it trains to your own voice? Wifi needed- uses dragon servers. Too late to play with now but I’ll post a full opinion soon. It is free, though.
This is the personal blog (well, my blog, woo!) of Interaction Designer Calum Pringle
(ok ok I graduate in May but come on!) start reading my waffle below.
Dragon speech recognition now available for iPhone- apparently it’s a bit pants, and it doesn’t look like it trains to your own voice? Wifi needed- uses dragon servers. Too late to play with now but I’ll post a full opinion soon. It is free, though.
How come I hadn’t seen this before?! Stick it on your iPhone 3 and you’ve got video calling!
Link to the Arts Thread blog, with a wee pic of me! Subtle Subtitles - a highlight!
Human 2.0, blurring the boundaries between human and machine. Really interesting, wish I’d come across this when I was doing my dissertation! Essentially this demonstrates what is seemingly known to only a few - the ‘disabled’ person designing situations to enable participation in otherwise excluded activities. It’s exciting that we are bringing this ‘fringe’ interest more and more into the spotlight, which is something I am soooo desperate to work with as an interaction designer. I love how, early on in the clip, it is acknowledged that we have to ‘work out’ how to use the crap that often doctors give us to help enable ourselves. Hugh Herr goes into more detail of the technicalities of limb prosthesis and the potential that new technologies can offer. I’m only 6 minutes through… maybe more to come!
Didn’t take too many photos (wasn’t sure if I should really be taking ANY) but enjoyed the ECA degree show all the same!! It did make me feel a little over practical - guess I really am not an artist, certainly the bulk of the work here went straight over my head!!
Loving this song, who knows why!!!
Uh oh, PCB and teeny tiny microphone… Subtle subtitles going from amazing to amazinger????
Hello, I'm Calum Pringle, soon to graduate in interaction design at Dundee University. This is my blog.
Inevitably, although this is my personal blog, most of the entries will be project related until my degree show, as my project is my life right now. Other than that, I hope to update my blog regularly with whatever I feel like; so excuse the mix.
If you've stumbled across this blog and are interested in my honors project 'subtle subtitles' then please just drop me an email, I am more than happy to discuss it further.
calum (at) freecalum.co.uk
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