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From: adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams)
Subject: Voice Recognition
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 Recently I read a article on the November 14th article in PC WEEK about
the new voice recognition products soon to be shown at COMDEX.

 Some of the companies mentioned are Kurzweil Applied Intelligence and
VPC of Campbridge, Massachusetts. VPC will be selling a beta version
of their speech recognition engine.

 Both products are "continuous speech" products, as the article 
describes them.

 Are these voice recognition packages capable of reading a normal 
conversation as spoken by someone without training or unnatural pauses?

 My dream application would be a telephone program using speech
recognition for the hard of hearing, who are capable of speaking on
their own. When the phone rings, they will answer it using the computer,
and when the other party speaks, the printed version of the conversation
is shown on the screen.

 However, my application would favor real-time over accuracy. While it's
not so important to determine if the person said "hat" or "bat", it's
important that the computer be able to either spell out the conversation
phonetically or give a "best guess".

 I would be very grateful for any further information, or of a good
source of information.

                                              Thanks,


                                                  Derrick


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