Ikea

[lin n vic]

Hi guys anybody know what junction on the motorway
to get off for ikea thanks

Vic

[WHL]

The junction after the GSP football stadium, you can't miss it

[trevnhil]

I doubt it will make any difference but the spelling of the area is Strovolos ..

[Dominic]

Google Maps will help for places like Ikea but they won't work for everything. I once got into a heated shouting match with my phone because it kept insisting that the field I had been driving around was the shop I was looking for. And it isn't that boned up with some of the One Way systems in Cyprus.

But for a known quantity, like Ikea, it is spot on.

[Devil]

Voice recognition is heaps better than it was one or two decades ago, but sometimes gets it wrong.

I have been using voice recognition since about 1990, mainly because of difficulty with typing. I started off with the IBM "Simply Speaking" which was the pioneer system; you had to dictate each word separately with a few milliseconds pause between them and I had it in both English and French. I would guess that it was about 1993 that IBM managed continuous speech, up to about eight words at a time. This worked fine because many people think, when dictating, in terms of 2 to 6 words. If I remember correctly, the latest versions came on 38 3 1/2 inch diskettes. In the mid-1990s, IBM decided that speech recognition was not one of their core businesses and they sold it to a company that went phut within a year or two. At about that time, another company whose name escapes me for the moment came on the market with a certain amount of success but they got embroiled with IBM over intellectual property rights and, out of the ashes, Dragon was born. I think this must have been in the mid-1990s. Although I was still using the IBM system, I switched to Dragon in the hopes of future upgrading. I am still using it (version 15.61). This irrelevant post has nothing whatsoever to do with IKEA except, perhaps, the way the name IKEA is pronounced. Dragon prefers the correct pronunciation of the short I but also accepts the British pronunciation with the long I. This medium length paragraph took me about five minutes to dictate, including a couple of corrections, but it would have taken me at least an hour to have typed it on the keyboard: if you think five minutes is too long, remember that my brain is not as astute as it used to be! That smiley face was also dictated!

[WHL]

Check out Waze from play store, ive been using it on my phone.

[Devil]

Waze (Hebrew: ווייז‎, /weɪz/; formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS navigation software app and a subsidiary of Google. It works on smartphones and tablet computers that have GPS support. It provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted travel times and route details, while downloading location-dependent information over a mobile telephone network. Waze describes its app as a community-driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use.

(Wiki)

From this description, it is not a full-blown dictation system that allows me to dictate this reply and correct any spelling errors (rare, if any!). It is closer to a navigation system.

[WHL]

I used it today to get me to an address in Limassol, worked great, and no need for internet

[trevnhil]

As you may know I am not that good on phones. But I looked a Waze and it said "Waze is very good but must have wifi "
And yet you say it does not need the internet ???

[WHL]

As you may know I am not that good on phones. But I looked a Waze and it said "Waze is very good but must have wifi "
And yet you say it does not need the internet ???

No trev it doesn't need wifi, i just put the address in limassol, left my place in larnaca and it took me there and back without any internet,

Im not technical so I cant explain how it works, but it does and doesn't cost a penny

[trevnhil]

Ah.. Mine will do that with Google Maps. I can ask it to show me the way to a place when I am at home with the internet, and it 'loads it in' .. I then leave home ie 'no internet' and it continues to show me the way to the destination.

[trevnhil]

I can't remember one delivery being made actually at our home.. I usually have to go out and meet them in the village or at the Stoumbi Petrol station.. We are a little off the beaten track though and the lane we live on has no name..

[WHL]

I use a proper up to date MAP. Works everytime.

I've still got an A-Z somewhere