On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
> Voice _activated_ or voice _operated_? I could easily imagine a type
> writer turning on when you talk to it, but not a typewriter that can
> understand speech. Though, with a housefull of tubes, it could
> probably be done...
How about a houseful of tubes coupled with a Z-80 with 128 bit address space?
If anybody here can afford to fully populate that address space, I'd like to
discuss employment, ...
Some of the very early voice recognition typewriters operated with their
own phoneme based alphabets, rather than producing English text.
Even the task of parsing the input stream to separate the words from each
other has remained an elusive goal. That is a loarge part of why the
current "dictation" systems remain unsuitable for transcription, closed
captioning, aids for the deaf, etc. Even now, the best systems available
require intense interaction between the speaker and the program.
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Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 16:27:00 GMT