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Re:Futures of text by rancur on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:00PM (#10073882)
consistent and thought-out, feature-rich design is all we really need to make interacting with the phone efficient.

none of the business heads understand how to get it right so they shoot for pie in the skie [hm, that was an interesting spelling mistake to make] alternatives because they prematurely dismissed what a master of design can accomplish because they balk at the salary.

Re:Futures of text by doublerebel on Monday August 17, 2015 @03:34PM (#10075522)
Exactly. Command line is too far, so is pure sentiment-based NLP. In the middle I propose Voice URLs, a standard for linear voice actions -- rather than the JSON format that the current NLP services are using now. I'm right in the middle of the formal writeup but wanted to mention this to like-minded designers.
Re:Futures of text by firstworldman on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:58PM (#10076070)
I'm curious to read more on this topic. Where will your writeup appear?
Re:Futures of text by doublerebel on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:44PM (#10076349)
I will definitely post on HN, but you can also follow my username on Github. I will post to the community so that it will be a collaborative effort. Please feel free to contact me directly if this effort speaks to you.