some good voice recognition sofware on a personal device listening to words the user talks and words said to the user , and predicting which words are likely to follow. then using some ai tuned[over time] to predict the user and the users words , a conversation test to see what the user might say, a warning as to whether it may be annoying ,offensive or something before a novel social situation. actually i might hate one of these for real[being annoying] some of you might not-- technobadger, Jan 14 2002 I think...-- thumbwax, Jan 14 2002 I think I understand this. It's sort of so you can rehearse what you're going to say at some important function so that you don't make a fool of yourself. I think.-- TeaTotal, Jan 14 2002 ...actually...-- thumbwax, Jan 14 2002 I just bit a git - oh dear-- po, Jan 14 2002 I'm totally a git it, so pay me.-- reensure, Jan 14 2002 I assume this would interupt you with a "I know what you are going to say next and I also understand that if you do you say what I know you want to say you are going to insult the person, or people, you are talking to."-- bristolz, Jan 14 2002 ... not again...-- thumbwax, Jan 15 2002 [TW]: Your thoughts have been hard to follow lately.-- bristolz, Jan 15 2002 You may need some good voice recognition software on a personal device listening to words - the user talks and words said to the user, and predicting which words are likely to follow.-- thumbwax, Jan 15 2002 How close could this get to impersonating people over the phone? I might have some uses for this...-- spew, Jan 15 2002 I'll offer to beta-test. Oftentimes the only reason I open my mouth is to switch feet...-- RayfordSteele, Feb 15 2002 Markov modeling of the language. Read Shannon's theory of communication. The only problem is how would you asses which processes are offensive/annoying, etc.?-- jdoe, May 04 2002 random, halfbakery