Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!leadsv!webb From: webb@leadsv.UUCP (J.J. Webb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Voice recognition/speech synthesis products Keywords: voice speech Message-ID: <5466@leadsv.UUCP> Date: 30 Dec 88 19:15:50 GMT References: <300@holin.ATT.COM> Reply-To: webb@leadsv.LEADS.LMSC.COM.UUCP (J.J. Webb) Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 24 There is a speech recognition board made by Interpath, Inc., in Santa Clara. The board sells for 4-5 hundred dollars and has a vocabulary of about 500 words. I've seen demos of it being used with DOS, and with Lotus, DBase and some other applications ... it was very impressive. The phone number is 408/727-4559. Ask for John McAfee, he can tell you whole bunches about speech rec. There is also a board made by (I think the company's name is) Votrax. I saw a demo of it as well ... it was less impressive ... fewer words, harder to train, higher cost, etc. They weren't as impressive as Interpath so I dismissed them pretty fast. But speech rec. is in its infancy. And speech synth. is real tough. Companies working on speech synth for the handicapped include IBM and Computer Curriculum Corporation. A great deal of research has been done at Standford Univ. as well. CCC is in Palo Alto. I don't have the phone number handy but could dig it up fairly quickly if anyone is interested. ....jjwebb.... BTW ... I worked for CCC 10 years ago and worked with John McAfee 5 years ago, but I have no professional connection with either CCC or Interpath nowadays.