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From: javoskamp@watnot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Flat Displays and Portable Computers
Message-ID: <12414@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 13:53:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 13:53:43 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 04:23:34 EST
References: <52@cerebus.UUCP> <546@harlie.UUCP> <549@watcgl.UUCP>
Reply-To: javoskamp@watnot.UUCP (Jeff Voskamp)
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In article <549@watcgl.UUCP> sjrapaport@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Rapaport) writes:
>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
>>...
>>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
Of course, if the students are going to be perfectly silent you might as
well just get a video tape of the lecture and download the notes onto
the pc.  Then the students can take the course whenever they want to, not
at 8:30 am Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Mind you, it might be useful in a meeting or somesuch.

Jeff Voskamp
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