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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Natural Language
Message-ID: <4127@eos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 16:28:31 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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The current dicussion about various aspects of natural language
elicits me to ask the yearly query for examples of natural
language to test speech synthesis and recognition.

While a few people are working in these areas, there is lots of
interest by a naive public which does not understand all of the
issues in these areas.  In an effort to aid testing, I ask for
sample text for either synthesis and/or recognition.

The existing informally collected file resides on aurora.arc.nasa.gov
in the directory pub and file can be grabbed using one of either two names:
speech.examples, or from a discussion in comp.arch on benchmarking names:
Rhosettastone (the file is identical).

Please email any example you might have to me as I do not reguarly read
comp.ai.  I will include it into the file IF it does not alredy exist
in the file and does not contain potentially objectionable material
(taste, it is a Govt. machine and we have lots of bureaucrats around 8).
Credit will also be cited in the file.

Another gross generalization from

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