Kurzweil KVS

From: dave dameron <ddameron_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Oct 28 20:25:52 1998

Hi Doug and all,
At 04:59 PM 10/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
>> Unless you used "1000 word vocab" to qualify the claim, in which case I
>> still think there may be an earlier contender. Speech recongition goes
>> back a long way, perhaps as far back as the 50s.
>
>Yes, commercial and 1000 word vocab were the qualifiers; let me know if
>you still challenge the claim, otherwise it gets immortalized in a web
>page soon.
>
>And given that AI didn't really get started until around 1960, and that
>storage for digitized speech would have been very expensive back then, I'd
>be interested in any references you could provide for speech recognition
>way back in the 1950's.
>
In a recent "Electronic Design" magazine, the column "40 years ago", there
was an article about IBM and digitized speech. It is an interesting column,
as well as Bob Pease's.
-Dave
Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 20:25:52 GMT