Kurzweil KVS

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Thu Oct 29 08:22:31 1998

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Brett wrote:

> > > 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.
[...]
> I remember IBM did a rather large push in the mid-60's of speech. They
> even sent out records (either the flippy kind or real) with both sides of
> 'Bicycle Built For Two' - one which was used in '2001 - A Space Oddessy'
> for Hal in shutdown mode. The first side was current technology until
> this latest technology from IBM and the second side was the improved
> version. Along with it was a whole ad blurb of how wonderful this would
> make the world along with very little technical data.

Are we talking about two different things? It sounds like you're talking
about computer generated speech, which is a much different problem than
automatic speech recognition (for which digitizing the speech is the first
step).

Kurzweil also had a product that produced speech from text (which it
recognized from a page scan) called Personal Reader. I think the actual
speech generation was a licensed version of DEC-Talk.

-- Doug
Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 08:22:31 GMT