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Speech-to-Rebus
If phone-text is going to full of icons, then at least make them harder to interpret. | |
A typical phone-text app now offers access to a large number of little pictures as alternatives to words.
Hook up such an app to voice-recognition software - but, instead of just writing a picture of a thing named, have the software pluck out from the stream of phonemes any sequence which can be
mapped to any picture in the library, where words map to pictures many-to-many.
A groan-slider widget sets the level of permissible machine-generated bad punning.
An ex-rebus mode, combined with a high slider setting, allows this software to be used as a crude means to encrypt communication.
Ideally, advanced rebus constructions* would also be supported, but the algorithm for that would not be trivial.
*Such as the famous postal address
WOOD
JOHN
MASS
What a rebus is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus
Some people seem to need this ... [pertinax, Sep 26 2016]
Some rebus-sprinkled text ...
https://kendeacon.f.../mary-plain-026.jpg
... such as might be emulated by this app. [pertinax, Sep 26 2016]
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// level of permissible machine-generated bad punning // |
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Presumably there will be a "maximum boost" setting, marked "HB" ... |
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No relation to the detective? |
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Presumably not - unless transmission is in Morse. |
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More likely to be a message from Fax Mulder ... |
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I like this, so I voted for it. |
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That's definitely the way it works. |
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