The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey  —  INNOVATION usually needs time to steep.  Time to turn the idea into something tangible, time to get it to market, time for people to decide they accept it.  Speech recognition technology has steeped for a long time: Mike Phillips remembers …

Source:   New York Times

Author:   Michael Fitzgerald

Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/business/27proto…