Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!umich!telecom-request From: roeber@cithe1.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Voice Recognition Experiment Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 14:35:46 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 28 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 206, Message 8 of 10 In article , tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes: > 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. How available will this information be? Gee, I can think of lots of *really* *neat* *uses* for a database of people's voices connected with their names, current cities, and cities of birth. (Re: current cities: I think most people will call from home or work.) Maybe I'm too paranoid, but were I able to call, I think I'd leave out my name. Frederick G. M. Roeber | CERN -- European Center for Nuclear Research e-mail: roeber@caltech.edu or roeber@cern.ch | work: +41 22 767 31 80 r-mail: CERN/PPE, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland | home: +33 50 42 19 44