Xref: utzoo comp.dsp:1498 sci.electronics:19007 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ptimtc!rdmei!icspub!astemgw!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw2!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.dsp,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Voice Recognition Info Request Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 19:21:24 GMT References: <1991Mar15.171949.13836@infonode.ingr.com> <1895@hpwala.wal.hp.com> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Followup-To: comp.dsp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 3, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 14 >For those of you not familiar with AI , eliza is a program, written in >LISP, which pretends to be a psycho analyist by parroting back some of >your phrases, modified slightly. I thought it was originally written in BASIC or FORTRAN (although I'm not quite sure). From what I have heard, it was written sometime in the 1960's, and psychoanalysts were excited for a while about the possible applications for ELIZA in repetitive therapy (or whatever the technical term was). :-) ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet