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From: eli@lf-server-2.BBN.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need Voice Recog. Brd. Info. (not quite...)
Message-ID: <482@morningdew.BBN.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 88 01:51:57 GMT
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Reply-To: eli@BBN.COM (Steve Elias)
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In article <141900009@occrsh.ATT.COM> rct@occrsh.ATT.COM writes:
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>/* Written  6:48 pm  Jan  4, 1988 by tj@utgpu.UUCP in occrsh.ATT.COM:comp.s.ibm.pc */
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>I want to set up a pc to monitor a phone line, answer on ring, respond in
>voice, and recognize callers input from touchtone tones.

	hi tj & rct.  what you are asking for is not voice recognition
	equipment.  voice recognition is an entirely different ballgame
	from what you describe.  it takes big time cpu power, though
	there are fast PC applications that make a decent attempt at
	voice recognition -- a system with a vocabulary of over 20 or
	so words needs to be trained to understand each speaker.
	there are systems that can understand anyone speaking the 10
	digits or yes/no, without training.

	what you need is voice digitization & playback, an
	touchtone (tm, att!) recognition.  

	check out brooktrout technology's products or
	perhaps the watson board.  a single board from each company
	is way under $1000.  brooktrout's product can be multitasked --
	up to 6 phone lines in an AT, 4 in an XT.  watson can run a
	single board in a PC.

	watson is from natural microsystems, in natick, massachusetts.
	brooktrout technology is in wellesley hills, mass.