Pertingo Computer Support

For a dozen years, I've been predicting to my Indianapolis small business computer consulting customers that they'll soon be able to talk to their computer instead of typing or mousing to get things done. I've been so miserably wrong that now I continue to make the prediction only out of tradition. It will happen eventually, but I no longer suspect that the time is as close as I once believed. This morning, a report onNational Public Radio's Morning Edition raised my hopes. I still don't think it is good IT consulting to tell my customers that they'll be able to ditch the keyboard next year.

I've followed the voice recognition progress over the years since we started our Indianapolis computer services company. I have installed versions of the most popular software on my computers along the way. The voice recognition has gotten phenomenal. The problem is that computers just don't understand the English language (or any other for that matter). While the computer can take dictation rather well, it cannot parse meaning from the words it transcribes. Until it can do that, and be able to form sentences in response, we're going to keep typing and clicking.