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From: vincent@ditsyda.oz (David A. Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac??
Summary: a misinterpretation of 'speech recognition'
Keywords: Voice Recognition, Voice Synthesis, Speech, Voice Response
Message-ID: <1029@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 11 Jan 89 01:03:11 GMT
References: <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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in article <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, pam@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (.) says:
> Xref: ditsyda comp.sys.mac:17740 comp.cog-eng:609 sci.lang:22
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> 
> In article <6890> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
> | >>>Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10
       ****
> | >>>years away, can it?
> | >>>-Peter Schachte
>   
[...]
> 
> -- It's here! -- But how come there are no Speech Recognition boards for the

No, it is not here.  

> Macintosh?  There are plenty for IBM PC's. Both Speaker Dependent (you have to
> teach them your voice first) and Speaker Independent (they'll recognize
> anybody's voice, but only recognize a limited vocabulary of words)

This kind of stuff has been around for a long time, even for the Apple
II.  (Ten years?)  It does not constitute good speech recognition.  

Also, I doubt that the so-called 'speaker independent' systems
mentioned above will really recognize *anybody's* voice.   What about
people speaking with strong accents?  Or in perfect 'english' but over
background noise?  
> 
> Here are some speech recognition products that are available today for IBM's:
> 
[...]
> 
>    *** So where are the Voice Recognition systems for the Mac??? ***

Yes, where?  But, by the way, what is voice (as opposed to speech)
recognition?  (Or is there no difference?  In normal discussion, 
'voice' is rarely interchangable with 'speech'.)  

...D.A.V.
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