Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!bagate!dsinc!telecom-request From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Voice Recognition Experiment Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 00:00:05 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 202, Message 1 of 15 The Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology is building a huge database of voices as part of a project to develop voice recognition for US West directory assistance. They want to be able to classify sounds according to regional differences, and they need thousands of samples of speech to do this. Call 800-441-1037 (I assume this is nationwide ... it may not be) and follow the voice prompts. They will ask your last name, where you are calling from, and where you grew up, and then ask you to pronounce several words and recite the alphabet. It takes about two minutes. Tad Cook Seattle, WA Packet: KT7H @ N7ENT.#WWA.WA.USA.NA Phone: 206/527-4089 MCI Mail: 3288544 Telex: 6503288544 MCIUW USENET:...uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!ssc!tad or, tad@ssc.UUCP [Moderator's Note: The number works from Chicago, and I gave my specimen yesterday. It does take just a couple minutes, and it was fun. I suggest everyone provide a specimen, and be sure to mention on the tape you read about their efforts in TELECOM Digest! PAT]