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From: see1@tank.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
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
Message-ID: <1487@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 89 19:36:14 GMT
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In article <932@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>
>							I could
>select a quotation and say "quote this."  A good voice-operated word
>processor would know that periods and commas (usually) go inside quotes,
>but colons (usually) go outside, and other such trivia.  It should also
>know that when you put a quotation inside another quotation, you use
>single quotes for the inner quotation.

And would it also know that if the speaker is British (and I presume,
but am not sure, Canadian or Australian), the main quotation should
use single quotes and the inner quotation double quotes?  Or that if
the Briton says 'tyre,' she means just that and not "tire"?  Would you
simply have a Dialect A/Dialect B/Dialect Z switch, or is something more
complex needed?

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Ellen Keyne Seebacher                 University of Chicago Computing Orgzns.
see1@tank.uchicago.edu                staff.ellen@chip.uchicago.edu