On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:36:10 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 07/10/2011 8:08 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I find myself often trying to drive someone else's computer by using my
>> voice.  I tell you, voice control of another person's computer with
>> them interpreting is probably one of the more frustrating things to do.
>>
>>
> I point or if it is a long process ask if they mind if I drive.

Hard to do when a voice connection is all I'm working from.

>> Or when my mom starts reading an error message to me - and after three
>> words, I know what the next thing is and what to do next.
> 
> A good son. :-)

Sometimes it's quite frustrating, though - for example, "My skype no 
longer works".  Then she tries to tell me on the phone (as at that point 
I usually would talk to her on handsfree in the car on the way home from 
the office) what it's doing.

So to get around that, she bought a smart phone.  Now she doesn't know 
how to get her voice mail.  *sigh*

(The connection as to why she got a smart phone isn't obvious until you 
know that the reason she uses Skype is to talk to my brother in Japan - 
and Skype not working on her desktop means she needs another way to avoid 
running up a hideous phone bill to talk with Steve)

Jim

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