"tango4" wrote in message
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"Robert Ehrlich" wrote in message
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Bill Daniels wrote:
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Limited vocabulary voice commands would work too.
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Only for english speaking pilots with the proper (i.e. probably
american)
accent.
Definetely not for me. Anyway I hate to have to speak to a machine.

Spot on! Now add differing wind noise, audio vario tones and the fact that
your radio might break squelch at just the wrong moment and voice
controlled
instruments are a long way off technologically.

Ian


Come on, guys, it's the 21st century already - this stuff works. Robert,
computers aren't American or any other nationality, they can speak French
too - really. (Actually, they speak Japanese best. Ever thought about the
problem of putting 6000+ Kanji characters on a keyboard?)

Using voice input with my cell phone to control a remote computer works even
when driving a car with the radio on and the windows open. Voice input has
come a long way in the last three years. Wind noise, accent, vario audio
even radio background can be dealt with very successfully.

If you are really worried that it won't work in a critical situation, just
have a backup input method like a button or switch that does the same thing
the voice command does.

Anyway, Ian, why is your cockpit so noisy? Mine is so quiet that I have to
set the vario and radio volumes no higher than 2 -5% or they blow me out of
the cockpit.

Bill Daniels