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Opera - the Browser that Speaks and Listens

Today must be a very exciting day for Opera fans: Opera 8.0 Beta 1 is just out.

The build was original targeted as Opera 7.6. But because of the numerous improvements, it has made itselfs to Opera 8.0. For detail of the various changes, see the changelog.

Among all the changes, the most impressive one is undoubtedly the voice technology (by IBM). Now user can use voice commands to control the browser; TTS by highlighting and pressing V; and interact with XHTML+Voice enhanced websites.

The TTS is quite good. It will pause a little bit before and after elements like strong, em and a, and words in full uppercase like ABC.

However, it seems that only English is supported. Also, when it comes to sentence with punctuation marks next to an element, the resulting speech can be very weird. For example, Opera is cool. will be spoken out as Opera's (pause) cool (pause) dot. So the current engine cannot handle paragraphs that are heavily hyperlinked well.

P.S. By the way, Opera 8.0 Beta 1 has a popup notifier like that of the Gmail Notifier. The only difference is that it is shown on the top of the screen, not on the bottom. Look weird to me.

圣诞个性金条今上市

This post is in Chinese only.

12月20日，一位银行销售员在展示“个性”圣诞金条。这些金砖非常个性化，可以刻上用户的名字和祝福语。此次上市的“个性”圣诞金条分为20大类110种规格，成色均为99.99%。金条价格参照上海黄金交易所和伦敦金银市场黄金价格体系，分别按销售价和回购价买卖。据悉第一批个性金条，已被等候多时的消费者抢购一空。

Merry Christmas!

鳴らない， IM

This post is in Chinese only.

又開始漫長的(而且是最後的)聖誕假了。雖然不至於做出像轟殺這樣的事來，但真的很悶，很悶，悶死了。對著不響的IM (不懂的給我看EVA第三話一百次)，唯有多看幾套Anime打發一下時間。

我看，還是認真做FYP吧！雖然這句話常常掛在我嘴邊... :-/

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