By Sharon Hill,Pam Spencer,

and Mary D’Arco

KeyboardAdvantagesKeyboards have little variation, does not need to

be reprogrammed for different usersWill be needed to override programsDisadvantagesTakes longer to learnCauses health problem such as Tendonitis and

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)

Speech Recognition ProgramsAdvantages

Up to 2 million preprogrammed wordsHands freeTalking is faster than typing

DisadvantagesHomonyms will make it difficult for the Speech

recognition programs to recognize words that sound the same but are different

Software may interpret as many as 1 out of 10 wrongTakes time to program your speech patterns into the

program

Bill Gates says:

“(In)speech recognition, it's many decades of work and building up the databases and just learning where the mistakes happen to get made.”(cnet)

“I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.” (abc news)

Photo Cited Slide 4 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=506354

Works CitedSlide 4

http://www.news.com/Gates-explains-why-Microsoft-needs-Yahoo---page-3/2008-1014_3-6231341-3.html?tag=st.num

Slide 4 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=506354