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From: pkahn@meridian.ads.com (Phil Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng,comp.sys.ibm.pc,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: 9 Jan 89 17:51:12 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300
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In article <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> pam@uhccux.UUCP (.) writes:
>
>-- It's here! -- But how come there are no Speech Recognition boards for the
>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)
>

Check the 7/19/88 MacWEEK (front page).  There are two boards from a
company called Articulate Systems (415-549-1013). A 1000 word board
(VoiceNavigator1000, $1250) and a 200 word board (VoiceNavigator200, $750).
Requires training (i.e., speaker dependent). Clever interface to Mac.
Is SCSI and ADB based.  Two modes for use:  1) program interrupts when
keyword detected, 2) have keyword recognition imitate keyboard or
mouse action (so it can be front-ended to most applications). 

I have no experience with the board whatsoever except for literature
and conversations with the company.

phil...