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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
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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: 21 Jan 89 00:00:48 GMT
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In article <1487@tank.uchicago.edu> see1@tank.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) writes:
[ about a speech recognition based word processor ]
>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?

Sure.  And for French, it would use << and >> for quotations.  There
would have to be different versions for different languages, so why not
different versions for different dialects?  Or, more likely, you'd plug
dialect-specific rules and spellings into a standard "English" word
processor.  Just like the unix spelling checker that has a "British"
mode, and like my Amiga that has different keymaps for different
languages/countries.  No problem.
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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