Gates, Speech Recognition And IBM's Stake In The Ground

offers up a cold towel:

That's a good amount of negativity for technology that IBM has done an awful lot of work developing and sharing. In fact, one of the industry's top evangelists for speech recognition is IBM's Alfred Spector, who in the past has provided a lot of energy in talking up the prospects for the technology. IBM has had a stake in the ground of many aspects of speech recognition for a while. And now might not be the best time to become bearish on speech, as Ashok Kumar notes on his blog:

So it's no wonder Gates is touting speech. Kumar continues:

Going a step or two deeper into an enterprise, one can imagine a day when system management runs in much the same manner, and a solution provider's customer can call his server directly on a Sunday at 4 a.m. to fix a problem rather than calling the solution provider at home.

And as Booch notes, IBM does hold a number of patents in this area. It's a stake the company may want to plant even deeper in the coming years.

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