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From: kgeisel@nfsun.UUCP (kurt geisel)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Speech rec. using neural nets
Summary: Phonetic Typewriter
Message-ID: <297@nfsun.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 21:43:10 GMT
References: <2961@watale.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: Intelligent Technology Group, Pittsburgh, PA
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Teuvo Kohonen describes success at Helsinki University with a
speaker-independent neural system which recognizes phonemes (the box spits
out phonemes, not words - you would still need a sophisticated parsing stage)
in the article "The 'Neural' Phonetic Typewriter" in the March 1988 issue of
the IEEE's _Computer_.

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