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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: voice interfaces and languages
Keywords: Loglan, voice interfaces, rule-based languages
Message-ID: <1313@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Feb 90 22:51:11 GMT
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Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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In article <1990Feb17.035719.18228@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@Mthvax.cs.Miami.Edu (David Lesher) writes:
>> Article <654@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> From: wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller)
># Esperanto.  Being rule-based, it holds the greatest potential
># for being _the_ medium from which to base all electronic communications.
># Its potential as a spoken language for computers is already being explored
># at the University of Illinois.  The completely regular and phonetic 

Then of course, there's Loglan, which is even more regular and rule-based.
Getting people to speak it may be more of a problem.

BTW, what is the current state of the art in speech recognition?  I get
the impression that it's at least five years away, and has been for a
long time...
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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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