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From: jojo@speedy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: who does it... // State of the art today?
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 23:21:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 23:21:44 1987
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In article <3055@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>Well, I don't know abotu any bbn-nerve connectors for your ethernet either,
>but I do know that voice recognition software is getting there.  Once
>we get computers we can talk to, we can probably get computers we can
>subvocalize to.  People are building speech boxes for those people who
>have ruined laranxes, so I think that a fair bit of that technology must
>be there already.
>
	Actually, this whole area of technology would/will probably explode if
	business world saw a profit coming out of it.  I see the biggest uses,
	although maybe the dumbest, uses of this technology being aimed at
	children in the form of Teddy Ruxpin bears.  Then again, Take the
	technology further and have the damn bear Really parse English, give
	it access to large information databases, make it more mobile and
	you have a private tutor for your child which could probably answer
	your childs questions better than you could, adapting to the level
	of information he/she is capable of.  Now that would be interesting.

	--j
jon wesener
jojo@speedy.wisc.edu
	"If you like ASTROTIT, you should see what's coming! ;-)"