Xref: utzoo comp.windows.misc:963 comp.sys.next:1200 comp.sys.mac:24904 comp.cog-eng:849 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!husc6!ogccse!littlei!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@intelob.biin.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: One Step... (long!) Summary: :-) Message-ID: <4040@omepd.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 89 21:34:30 GMT References: <263@gloom.UUCP> <908@quintus.UUCP> <4524@xenna.Encore.COM> <10098@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.biin.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Followup-To: comp.windows.misc Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 22 In-reply-to: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) In article <10098@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>, diamond@csl (Norman Diamond) writes: | > >Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10 | > >years away, can it? | > >-Peter Schachte | | In article <4524@xenna.Encore.COM>, bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes: | | > As far as I can tell it's only been 5 or 10 years away for the past | > decade or so, I'd imagine that figure is still correct. | | Well, in 1956, in an advertisement on the back cover of Scientific | American, speech recognition equipment was only 4 years away. Maybe it is getting farther away? :-) (How many dipthongs in NeXT?) -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. or ...!tektronix!inteloa[!intelob]!merlyn HEADER ADDRESS MAY BE UNREPLYABLE if it says merlyn@intelob.biin.com ... Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer!