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From: rda@epistemi.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale)
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: 19 Jan 89 10:21:18 GMT
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Reply-To: rda@epistemi.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale)
Organization: Cognitive Science(Epistemics)Edinburgh U.,Scotland
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There's some interesting work that's been done at the University of
Dundee by Alan Newell and his colleagues on *simulating* the use of a
speech driven word processor (they had someone with a Palantype
keyboard -- one of those kbd devices used in court reporting that
allows real time transcription -- type what the user said, and then
the machine would handle that input).  I believe they got quite
interesting results -- like it's not at all clear how you could get
the interface to such a system to work particularly well.  

I'm awaiting a paper from Alan on this work -- I'll summarise briefly
when it arrives if there's any interest.

R


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