Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!klaatu.rutgers.edu!josh From: josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: voice interfaces and languages Keywords: Loglan, voice interfaces, rule-based languages Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 90 22:09:17 GMT References: <$850929432S0404D19900129T155050.0001.Mail-VE> <152@uncmed.med.unc.edu> <654@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <1990Feb17.035719.18228@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <1313@sys.uea.ac.uk> <10238@ttidca.TTI.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 16 "}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... "Natural language speech recognition was ten years in the future for about "thirty years. It's now about five years in the future and I expect it to "stay there for at least another ten years. (-: A good overview can be found in Bristow, "Electronic Speech Recognition", McGraw Hill, 1986. Everything below the level of "understanding" seems to be theoretically ready, and hardware systems capable of putting it together are in the lab. The major stumbling block seems to be raw processing power, and of course we all expect that ship to be coming in "any day now". --JoSH