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From this article: Ubuntu rips up drop-down menus
Ubuntu is set to replace the 30-year-old computer menu system with a “Head-Up Display” that allows users to simply type or speak menu commands.
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Ubuntu plans to integrate voice recognition with HUD in future releases, allowing users to dictate commands to their PC.
Basically rather than navigating menus to find an application function, just tap ALT and type what you want the application to do.
Some fuzzy logic matches what you typed with the application menus, and the most relevant commands are displayed. To complete the action just press return, or select one of the alternative functions presented in the auto-complete.
From Mark Shuttleworth's blog:
Voice is the natural next step
Searching is fast and familiar, especially once we integrate voice recognition, gesture and touch. We want to make it easy to talk to any application, and for any application to respond to your voice. The full integration of voice into applications will take some time. We can start by mapping voice onto the existing menu structures of your apps. And it will only get better from there.
A team I work with at the Synthetic Intellect Institute is working on a project called SpeechControl (http://www.thesii.org/wiki/SpeechControl). We've spoke to Mark, Ted Gould and a few others about HUD at the first mention of speech recognition and they're open to developers integrated such support as early as possible.
We hope to possibly integrate support a few weeks after the release of Precise.