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From: sjrapaport@watcgl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Flat Displays and Portable Computers
Message-ID: <549@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 13:07:04 EST
Article-I.D.: watcgl.549
Posted: Wed Feb  4 13:07:04 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 04:23:09 EST
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Reply-To: sjrapaport@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Rapaport)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <546@harlie.UUCP> carl@harlie.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) writes:
>	You don't want to rely on voice control/input.  I'm not so sure
>today's technology can do that, though I may be behind in what I know
>of it.  But can you imagine a professor lecturing a bunch of people
>muttering into little microphones?  I would prefer the sound of fingers
>whispering onto muffled keyboards myself.  

Well, what about a professor lecturing a bunch of people sitting in
perfect silence so's their voice input mikes can catch every word he
says and get a perfect transcript of the lecture?

You're half right about today's voice input technology.  It can't
quite do what I've just suggested, yet (Although it's a software
and memory size problem, not hardware.)  But it can already recognize a
limited vocabulary pretty well, well enough to be used in industrial
applications.  But automatic transcription, if you're not too concerned
with spelling of homonyms, can be done with limited results already,
and it gets better the more money you throw at it.  It's worth a try.
-steve