Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!umich!telecom-request From: hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Voice Recognition Experiment Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 20:14:59 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR Lines: 35 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 9 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. Hey, neat, the speech guys here will be glad to know folks all over are calling in. I thought I'd contribute a little second-hand info on the (telephone) technology involved. First, I hear it was a, um, challenge to get a USWest 800-number into our location (GTE territory). I'm not sure how that was resolved. > [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] Uh, it's not a tape. They first had a scheme which used a modified answering machine wired up to a DSP board in a workstation. This didn't work too well, but along came an off-the-shelf magic box (I think they have two now) which has a phone connector on one "side" and a SCSI connector on the other. I hear there's a PC inside of it, and some DSP magic (16-bit sampling?), and it's made by a company called Gradient Technologies. If you want more details, I'll have to track down the folks in the know and let them type at you. About the only thing I have to add is that they sure do fill up a lot of disks with their speech samples. They also use up a lot of Exabyte tapes for backups, and they soak up plenty of SPARC cycles, as well. Marion Hakanson Domain: hakanson@cse.ogi.edu UUCP : {hp-pcd,tektronix}!ogicse!hakanson