12-30-2012, 07:27 PM | #11 |
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Re: Minimum device Complexity for reading JPGs? BMPs? MP3? Text?
Real time adds complexity. Taking minutes or even longer to unpack a jpg can be fine but audio or video takes a lot more speed. From my interesting quote file.
A friend of mine and I just calculated that if he stored his half-hour TV program (he does infomercials) on 400-byte/meter paper tape with at a width of 8 bits, his commercial (saved as an AVI) would take 16.1 million meters of paper tape. To be played back in real time, it would need to travel in excess of over twenty thousand miles per hour. |
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12-31-2012, 01:43 AM | #13 | ||
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Real-time voice translation depends on the above, not-yet-100% speech-to-text technology, but I've seen a recent demo where a guy gave a speech in English with a ~1/12 word error rate conversion to text, and a ~1/8 character error rate translation to Chinese, plus a voice recognizably his read the Chinese text despite him not speaking Chinese himself. So, C5 might represent that performance on something like a mini today. I recall voice translators sold by Sharper Image or DAK-style ads back in the day, but the ads said you typed the English word and got a foreign word in text plus a synthesized "bon.jour." or whatever. Someone may have floated an early version that let you record your own voice for input comparison or output or both, but vocab would have been tiny, <1000 words, possibly <250 as I dimly recall. |
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12-31-2012, 03:16 AM | #14 |
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12-31-2012, 11:13 AM | #15 |
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