While you're saying "Com..." I'll already have hit the stop button.

Maybe you could program it to stop if it hears the word "Ouch!"


In article ,
Ecnerwal wrote:
In article 1066800190.19346@prawn,
Kevin & Theresa Miller wrote:

Nope, we're gonna see massive improvements. With voice recognition in
computers, the lathe of tomorrow will be just like the one's aboard Star
Trek:
"Computer, increase speed 10 rpm", "Computer, stop the lathe", etc. No more
reaching across the way to stop a disintegrating bowl.

While you're saying "Com..." I'll already have hit the stop button.
Positionable controls (no reaching across anything) are much more
effective (and cheaper) than hokey gimmicks like voice control.

Though it would be sort of amusing to find your lathe taking directions
from Meat Loaf playing on the stereo - "... all of a sudden the lathe
was going like a Bat out of Hell..."

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