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Subject: Re: Voice Recognition Experiment
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Date: 19 Mar 91 14:13:22 GMT
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> 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.

Before I donate my voice to this project, I'm curious about one thing.
Is information that is obtained by having such a large database of
voices going to be kept private, or instead made available to the
public?

I think that good voice recognition systems would benefit the public,
and would be happy to donate my voice to a project that was working on
an "open" system.  However, if the Oregon project is strictly for the
use of US West, then I'm reluctant to participate.  While I'm more or
less a nice guy, I'm not so nice that I would donate my services to a
for profit company such as US West.  Of course, I would quickly
reconsider if US West were to offer to compensate me for my
participation.  :-)

What's the background behind this project?


Don