Question

what it be if I will be your future predictor speech in about 80_ 100 words

Answer 1

welcome, and thank you for inviting me to speak today. I'm going to use speech today but without much technology. I won't be using slides, you'll just have an audio channel. So even though I'm not an expert on speech technology -- you all probably know more about it than I do -- I am putting my faith in speech itself as a medium for the next few minutes.

So, as I'm not a researcher at the forefront on speech technology, I'm not going to be telling you about the latest and greatest advances. Instead I come to you, I suppose, with four different roles. One, as someone who spent a a lot of effort getting one new technology, the Web, from idea into general deployment, I'm interested in how we as a technical community get from where we are now to where we'd like to be. Two, as director of the World Wide Web Consortium, I try to get an overall view of where the new waves of Web technology are heading, and hopefully how they will fit together.

With my third hat on I'm a researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). MIT, along with ERCIM organization in Europe, and Keio University in Japan, plays host to the Consortium, and I get an office in the really nifty new CSAIL building, the Stata Center. That I like for lots of reasons, one of which is the people you get to talk to. I have chatted to some of my colleagues who actually are engaged in leading edge research about the future.

And fourth, I come as a random user who is going to be affected by this technology and who wants it to work well. It is perhaps the role I'm most comfortable in, because I can talk about what I would like. I don't normally try to predict the future - that's too hard: but talking about what we would like to see is the first step to getting it, so I do that a lot.

When you step back and look at what's happening, then one thing becomes clearer and clearer -- that things are very interconnected. If you are a fan of Douglas Adams and/or Ted Nelson, you'll know that all things are hopelessly intertwingled, and in the new technologies that in certainly the case. So I'm going to discuss speech first and then some of the things it connects with.