So having done a bit of research on the Internet, I have not managed to find any mind mapping software with built in speech recognition, neither one that implements Microsoft's speech recognition interface. Sounds like a great third year project!
My musings took me further: the web itself is a nonlinear map of chunks of information, as I said. So what about a mind mapping technology that not only will display a mind map, but would also generate web pages based on the map.
Actually, mind mapping technology does not seem that difficult to construct. Certainly compared to speech recognition technology. If that speech recognition technology is available as an interface (not being a professional software developer, I maybe using the wrong terms here, apologies), then the truly hard bit has already been done for you.
By the way, the reason that I'm writing these musings into my blog is that I have not yet found a very useful tool for jotting down these preliminary thoughts. In the running are Microsoft's One Note, the new web-based tool EverNote, and one of the mind mapping tools, which I have not yet tried.
And I still haven't written what my real current idea for my third year project is.
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Speaking of mind-mapping, I'm using freemind which is available at http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ which I find is very useful for organizing thoughts although current limitations include it being heavily text-based.
It is possible to dump images but it doesn't have anything near the same integration as microsoft one-note which even the new evernote can't compete with on any front aside from OCR text recognition.
Another mac application is being developed called mind node which promises to be more intuitive on the interface side but early days for that one too.
Yesterday I took part in Oussama's research project as a volunteer tester - it was to do with constructing tree diagrams in audio. I can't describe exactly what it involves until it's finished for fear of skewing his results but suffice it to say that you could quite easily generate tree diagrams with audio feedback and a keyboard. The hierarchical composition of the tree map lends itself to such simple inputs so I think this idea is not only feasible but potentially very useful. He is still looking for volunteers so you should go along this week if you're free as it's quite related.
Bill Gates has talked alot about getting rid of the middle man in interfaces with touch and voice technology and predictions in a microsoft-backed report just released today suggests this is certainly the way to go.
I dread this development as I may no longer be required as a part-time legal-audio when Lawyers can quite easily just speak to their computers. . . :(
I think you're destined for greater things than being a part-time legal audio (whatever that is!)
thanks for the tips and links
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