{"id":6543,"date":"2008-02-24T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/bill-gates-scrap-your-keyboard.html"},"modified":"2008-02-24T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T10:21:02","slug":"bill-gates-scrap-your-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/speech-technologies\/bill-gates-scrap-your-keyboard.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: Scrap Your Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/bill-gates.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Having been covering the speech space for well over a decade I am blown away to hear that Bill Gates thinks that in five years there will be more web searches done by speech technology than keyboards. This is a very bold statement and tough to swallow. It would also explain why Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/microsoft-acquires-tellme.html\">purchased <\/a>Tellme.<\/p>\n<p>But here is the fascinating part of it all. I have witnessed the speech technology industry grow and then slow to a crawl. I used to see new speech companies all the time and lately there have been few if any companies entering the space.<\/p>\n<p>So if Gates is right, something huge would have to happen to enable this shift to take place without anyone else noticing. <\/p>\n<p>So what will change? How is this possible? As a result of these comments can we expect dozens of new speech companies to emerge? I am not sure but will be watching very closely while remaining very skeptical that I will be able to throw away this keyboard any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>But in truth, if you read between the lines, TellMe is a speech recognition service which you use with a phone. Gates probably believes we will be searching via mobile phones. It is possible I guess but I still have trouble beleiveing that speech technology will take off to this level so quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2008\/02\/22\/3285843.htm\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been covering the speech space for well over a decade I am blown away to hear that Bill Gates thinks that in five years there will be more web searches done by speech technology than keyboards. This is a very bold statement and tough to swallow. It would also explain why Microsoft purchased Tellme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}