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From: warner@s3snorkel.ARPA (Ken Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac??
Keywords: Voice Recognition, Voice Synthesis, Speech, Voice Response
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Date: 17 Jan 89 16:35:26 GMT
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In article <927@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>In article <434@eutrc3.UUCP> rcbaab@eutrc3.UUCP (Annard Brouwer) writes:
>>Why does everybody want a speech recognition device for their Mac (or
>>other computers)?
>
>Because I can speak much faster than I can type.  

For a while...maybe.  I guess that one might have a different viewpoint if one
tried to talk faster than he typed all day, everyday, for a year.  Then again,
maybe not.

I get tired of talking a lot faster than I get tired of typing.

>						For editing, I'd want
>a combination of mouse and speech recognition (point somewhere and say
>"insert 'point somewhere and say'," and the phrase appears).  Or how
>about pointing with the mouse and saying "move this...," then moving
>the mouse and saying "here."

How would you enter the above paragraph?  

Ken Warner
warner@snorkel.UUCP
warner@snorkel.arpa