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From: srpenndo@uokmax.UUCP (Sean Richard Penndorf)
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: <2209@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 15:45:23 GMT
References: <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: srpenndo@uokmax.UUCP (Sean Richard Penndorf)
Organization: Ultimatum Software
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In article <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> pam@uhccux.UUCP (.) writes:
=>
=>In article <6890> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
=>| >>>Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10
=>| >>>years away, can it?
=>| >>>-Peter Schachte
=>  
=>| diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) 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)

Most of the articles I have seen about Mac Speech Recognition are talking about things that are much farther than just Speech Recognition.  One company already
has the ability to understand speech.  However, rather than market what they 
have so far, they are continuing research.  They are attempting to teach their
AI software to understand the language of English (later other languages as
well) to use it as a dictation word-processor.  That is, you only speak to
your computer to compose documents or letters.  The problems they are having
at the moment were the understanding of voice inflections, dialects, and
words that sound the same, but are spelled different (hononyms?).  Sorry
I don't have that article in front of me or I would tell you more.

Imagine...Microsoft Word on the Mac where you do not to use a keyboard or a
mouse.  Now that's Mac user friendly interface!


-- 
Sean 'Longstride' Penndorf
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