Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!egg-id!rhp From: rhp@INEL.GOV (Robert Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Infor. request: Any speech recognition package running on NeXT? Summary: SPHINX from CMU Message-ID: <348@egg-idINEL.GOV> Date: 8 Feb 90 20:30:18 GMT References: <90037.142726BONQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <28325@brunix.UUCP> Sender: nsadmin@INEL.GOV Lines: 58 Several people have requested this info now, here's what I know: - People at Carnegie-Mellon University have ported their SPHINX speech- recognition package over to the NeXT compter. This is what the one person who saw the demo was actually seeing. It can have a vocabulary of ~1000 words, and recognizes continuous, speaker-independent speech with better than 96% accuracy. It sounds nice, we're trying to get it for our NeXT. Our regional NeXT rep said he could give us a copy, but it's at least 5 months old. I am getting my info from the NeXT Academic Project Directory, Fall 1989. It lists one of the primary SPHINX researchers as the CMU contact: Kai-Fu Lee Computer Research Scientist Carnegie-Mellon University Address: Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburg, PA 15213 Electronic-Mail Address: kai-fu.lee@speech2.cs.cmu.edu) Before flooding Mr. Lee with mail, I suggest you read a paper, of which he was a co-author: "An Overview of the SPHINX Speech Recognition System" by Kai-Fu Lee, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, and Raj Reddy The paper was published in the "IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing", Vol. 38, No. 1, January 1990. - One of the reasons we purchased our NeXTs was to do speech recognition. Currently we are learning IB and Objective-C. We have some neural-network speech recognition code which we developed on an HP-9000 system, which we may port over to the NeXT. - An unrelated side-note: I recently asked our regional NeXT rep when Write Now would have underlining, and here's what he told me (he heard this word-of-mouth at NeXT, so it's not guaranteed to be 100% factual, though it sounds plausible to me): The author of Write Now considers underlining to be the grade- school equivalent of italics. So since the word-processor has italics, there is no reason to support underlining. Could be, since it seems to me a relatively simple addition. It would be nice to have it optional, rather than having italics forced down our throats. Truthfully, though, I only missed underlining at first. Now I'm used to using italics everywhere. They look nice when printed, and I find it interesting that none of the font panels support underlining, except in FrameMaker. Bob - - ------======###### The NeXT is a Mac on steroids #######======------ - - Bob Powell Idaho National Engineering Laboratory P.O. Box 1625 Internet: rhp@inel.gov M.S. 1206 Phone: (208) 526-8107 Idaho Falls, ID 83415