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From: wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald)
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Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
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Date: 7 Jan 89 20:51:34 GMT
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In article <10098@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman
Diamond) writes:
>In article <4524@xenna.Encore.COM>, bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
>>>Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10
>>>years away, can it?
>>>-Peter Schachte
>>
>> 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.

Oh, no!  It's getting farther away!  Run faster!


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David Wald                                              wald-david@yale.UUCP
waldave@yalevm.bitnet                                 wald-david@cs.yale.edu
"A monk, a clone and a ferengi decide to go bowling together..."
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