Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Voice recognition/speech synthesis products Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 88 03:56:33 GMT References: <300@holin.ATT.COM> <3442@mit-amt> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: geek@mit-amt's message of 29 Dec 88 21:20:29 GMT In article <3442@mit-amt> geek@mit-amt (Chris Schmandt) writes: In short: speech is a tough world to work in. Get the stuff and start to learn about it, but don't expect miracles! Chris is right, most of the speech stuff out there are toys. So, if you *really* want to play, go to your local Radio Shack store and check out their speaker-independent speech recognition chip. It's a fairly clever hack that relies on the ease of recognizing the fricative. So, they arrange their vocabulary so that it's either (voiced), (fricative), (voiced) (fricative), or (fricative) (voiced). I think it's something like "Go" (or "No"), "Stop" (or "Yes"), "Turn Left", or "Right Turn". Anyway, it's real cheap and looks like it might work, so check it out. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) "I saved the whales!" - Rebecca L. Nelson, 3.5 years old, on receiving her Christmas present of a whale "adoption" certificate. Bless her liberal heart.