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From: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
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Date: 6 Jan 89 04:32:42 GMT
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> >Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10
> >years away, can it?
> >-Peter Schachte

In article <4524@xenna.Encore.COM>, bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:

> As far as I can tell it's only been 5 or 10 years away for the past
> decade or so, I'd imagine that figure is still correct.

Well, in 1956, in an advertisement on the back cover of Scientific
American, speech recognition equipment was only 4 years away.
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Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
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