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From: guerra@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Frank M. Guerra)
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Subject: Re: Infor. request: Any speech recognition package running on NeXT?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 15:11:55 GMT
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In article <1990Feb7.200448.1344@csusac.csus.edu> hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood) writes:

   	Our NeXT rep gave us a speech recognition demonstration last year.
   I think it came from MIT (or CMU?  I forgot).  They said it was not ready
   to be released yet, but soon.... (that was last year!).  It was a neat
   demo.  He said a large number into the microphone (it was only set up
   do do numbers), and a couple of minutes later, it showed up in a little
   window.  Anybody else seen this one?

Yes.  The program is called Sphinx and it comes from CMU.  I don't know anything
about it other than that I have seen it in action as well.  Our NeXT rep himself
was unable to say whether the App would be made available to the public anytime
soon.  It was kinda impressive in that it didn't need to be "taught" to 
recognize a particular person's voice.

Frank
guerra@lll-crg.llnl.gov