By @edent · education MSc reading text tts voice · 4 comments · 700 words · read ~740 times.
Fourteen years ago, I blogged about the future of voice. In the post, I asked these two questions - which I'd nicked from someone else: Are you faster at speaking or typing? Are you faster at reading or listening? Lots of us now use Siri, Alexa, Bixby, and the like because it is quicker to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · games hack hacks interactive fiction mobile sms text twilio zork · 2 comments · 700 words · read ~11,907 times.
Remember text adventures, eh? They were pretty nifty! "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" >Go East "You have been eaten by a Grue. A dwarf starts singing about gold" Smashing! Just like the pictures are better on the radio, so the graphics are immeasurably superior when they're in your head. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · bidirectional ltr rtl text unicode usability · 650 words · read ~1,143 times.
Annoyingly, FourSquare has started be be a source of spam for me. I get friend request from people who only like certain brands of stores, from recruitment consultants trying to work out who I'm visiting, and from cultists who are desperate for me to visit Scientology centres. I also get friend requests from people I've […]
Continue reading →By @edent · crowdsourcing justice leveson ocr politics text · 1 comment · 500 words · read ~134 times.
I've already blogged about the Leveson Inquiry's disturbing habit of releasing evidence as scanned in PDFs. I had a suggestion from digital journalist Kevin Anderson @edent Put the Leveson docs up on Google Docs. I'd be curious how their OCR could handle them. Then click 'make public' — Mr Anderson (@kevglobal) May 11, 2012 Google […]
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