This is the computer talking

It’s amazing what computers can do.  This post will be the first of many that are written not by my fingers on the keypad but my voice through a microphone and through my computer.  I recently received Dragon naturally speaking for my computer and thought that it would be interesting to attempt to dictate things which I would normally write.  It’s surprisingly quite accurate.  When there is an error it is not the program but is most likely myself.  This is but another extension of my research into robotics and trans-human ideas. my previous thoughts were that speech recognition programs were rather cumbersome and required an incredible amount of artificial training.  Like most things which follow Moore’s Law speech recognition has also improved.  I became interested in speech recognition again after reading Raymond Kurzweil’s book Age of Spiritual Machines. This book outlined some pretty incredible arguments concerning the rapid increase of technological capacity as well as a landing the ramifications these technologies will have on human life in the future. while I separate from Kurzweil on several ideas his focus on Moore’s Law will be an incredible asset to my further research into trans-humanism.  And that’s where I am now… speaking aloud in an empty room, feeling quite odd at the echoing reverberations of my voice, speaking at my computer.  So far I am pleased that the computer has not spoken back.