The Talking Technologies Web Project is an information resource. How can we, and how should we, talk to computers. And how can they talk to us, and what will they tell us.

It’s already quite easy to talk to computers, and let them talk back. It doesn’t get the prize for conversation but, soon, talking with machinery, androids, and bio-technology, will become a natural dialogue.
However, since most of you don’t know any androids and would rather just skip the typing, we’re going to look at products that are in the shops now. They’re easy to use, like toasters or telephones. It’s OK to fail at things but, if you can’t use them, it’s almost certainly something you’re doing, or not doing.

The Talking Technologies Web Project makes full use of the advanced features of modern web software. Although most of the images are small, and should appear quickly, we’ve assumed that you’ve not set your web software options to over-ride graphic and colour content, and that your display will register the full range of colours.

To help you find your way through all this information, we’ve used pink ‘clickers’, similar to those on a DAT or CD transport. The following row of clickers are just examples, so are not active.