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From: cas@mtdcb.att.com (Cliff Stevens)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: TDD bulletin boards?
Summary: I dunno?
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Date: 9 Nov 90 05:53:34 GMT
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Fidonet: Silent Talk Conference

Index Number: 11648

In article <15523@bunker.UUCP>, James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org
(James Womack) writes:
> Index Number: 11618
> 
> 
> The good people at IBM have just loaned me the entire hardware and 
> software for their PhoneCommunicator. I have yet to install it as i 
> am busy.
>  
> It is supposed to allow me to make and receive calls with hearies without 
> use of a relay service. It will convert their messages on my printed 
> screen and change mine to voice transmissions on their phone. Once 
> I get it up and running (if it will work with my Tandy 1000TX), I will 
> keep you all posted on it.

If this is true, I'm *REALLY* *REALLY* *REALLY* *REALLY* *REALLY*
amazed!  What this implies is real speech to text! Without any
training, over a wide variety of audible conditions, pretty
reliably, and not on a Cray XMP!  (In fact, I am kinda amused at
the idea of doing anything like this on a Tandy! :-) I understand
that this may be a Beta trial, but even so, it is still miles ahead
of what I thought was state of the art!  I thought speech to text
was still a "Current Research Topic".

I cannot emphasize how great a jump this implies!  *NO* more hand
operated switches!  Just, "Light on!", or "Light off!", or
"Warmer!", or "Colder!", or "Call Uncle Joe!" (I know this exists,
but it takes training, and is not perfect.), or "Find the
intersection of 6x + 5y = 12 and y = x**2." And if someone can
talk, even if he's a quad, w the right HW he'll own the world!

I don't know about all of you, but I'm going to save this article
because (If true!) we have just entered a new age!

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Militant Handicapped Survivor!
	Cliff Stevens	MT1E228  att!cbnewsj!ncas  (908)671-7292