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We all know how frustrating it is to talk on a cell phone when reception is poor and your words get mangled.
Here is a simple solution: As soon as reception is so poor that your conversation partner starts to "break up", the phone automatically switches to low reception emergency mode.
A speech
recognition program converts your words into text. The text is transmitted to your partner's phone, which has a speech synthesis program that converts it back into words.
The advantage: Text requires *a lot* less bandwith than sound, so this emergency mode should continue working even where reception is lousy, giving the caller enough time to walk to a spot with better reception without needing to stop the conversation.
text<->speech as audio compression
text_3c-_3espeech_2...audio_20compression
[xaviergisz, Dec 22 2006]
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I get one bar of service here on the mountain, I can't send any text, let alone make a damn phone call. |
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actually that's an interesting idea, one that I hadn't heard before, and I hear a lot of them + |
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Nice idea [kinemojo]. It is predicated on the reliability of a technology (speech recognition) that isn't known for its reliability but if this problem were solved, I see no technical barrier on the telecoms side [+]. |
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