:: State of the ART ::

What do you think of voice recognition? Cool right?

And handwriting recognition? Just as cool.

So?

So ART (Advanced Recognition Technologies), a Wadi company doing both voice and handwriting recognition, should be the coolest thing around. In a way it is. But not in the way you think of.

If you dig into this you will figure that those two technologies actually compete with each other. If one does voice input one will not do handwriting input and if one does pen input one would keep his mouth shut. So though those two methods have very similar technical characteristics, they compete with each other on user attention.

Now a story.

Some friends of mine once stood in Union Square, NYC, looking to find a Noodles place called something like Sammy's Noodles. One of them had a cell phone so he called TellMe, the world leading Voice Portal, the other had a Palm with a downloaded Zagat guide on it and he started browsing the directory. A head-on challenge for those two input technologies.

What happened?

This time Pen Computing won. Next time, it might go the other way. At the end of the day it doesn't matter which technology is cool what matters is which is useful.

And the real cool thing?

ART has both covered.

Smart don't you think?

Wadi Writer #1 (Gray)
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Links:
http://www.artcomp.com/