Xref: utzoo comp.windows.misc:986 comp.sys.next:1231 comp.sys.mac:25021 comp.cog-eng:870 comp.sys.ibm.pc:23142 sci.lang:3908 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) 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 Message-ID: <3696@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 11 Jan 89 19:18:16 GMT References: <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 29 In article <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> pam@uhccux.UUCP (.) writes: }Speech Systems Incorporated Speech Input Development Syste allows recognition }of continuous speech. Not only words, but also phrases and complete sentences. }SSI's Speach Input Development System can recognize speech from a variety of }speakers. (i.e. it is Speaker Independent) }[Speech Systems Inc, 18356 Oxnard St, Tarzana, CA 91356 (818)-881-0885] }- Anybody have experience with any of the above mentioned products? Comments? I did some work with the SSI box about a year ago. At that time, what it recognized were "utterances". An utterance could be a word, a phrase, a sentence or almost anything. What it couldn't do was pick individual words out of a multiple word utterance. It could only recognize utterances that were in it's library of utterances. If the sentence "I see a blue box." was in it's library it would recognize it as "Iseeabluebox". If you gave it "I see a red box.", it wouldn't recognize the phrase or, worse, might decide you'd come close enough to "I see a blue box." to recognize it as such. (You could put things in the library like "I see a [blue | red] box.", but that was just a notational convenience). I don't know what developments or improvements SSI has made in the past year, but I assume there've been some, so the above may no longer apply. -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe