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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
Message-ID: <2922@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 89 17:38:37 GMT
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Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <397@laic.UUCP>, by darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson):
" In article <23040@apple.Apple.COM> malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney) writes:
" >On the other hand....human like speech recognition has been postulated to
" >take on the order of a Tera Flop by the IBM people.  The current problems
" ...  Presumably, this
" was with ideal conditions, short sentences, etc.  With a hardware neural
" net, real time speach recognition is quite possible with less than a
" super-computer. ...

Extending recognition from ideal circumstances to human like recognition
will require an understanding of human speech perception which does
not now exist.  New science is needed, not new technology.  Give
the IBM people a Tera Flop and watch them make bigga flop.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu