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From: mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike S.)
Subject: Commercially available voice recognition systems
Organization: BITS, St. Louis, MO
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 23:20:03 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Feb16.232003.1840%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu>
Summary: Need info on commercially available voice recognition systems
Keywords: voice recognition system
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We are developing a voice-input data collection application, currently
with Votan voice boards under SCO Unix.  At the moment we can only have
up to 8 simultaneous voice users (1 per Votan board) doing speaker-dependent
recognition.

We are now looking to explore other voice board solutions, preferably
multiple channels per board, speaker-independant would be great (but
we have a wide variety of words in our vocabulary), fast, available
software development libraries, and of course, compatible with SCO Unix.

Here is some info we recently received:

	Scott Instruments
		- This system looks fairly decent, but a bit pricey

	Dialogic
		- Looks mainly telephone-oriented

	Voice Processing Corp
		- Must send training sets to the company for them to
		  create voice templates.  This will not work for us.

	Covox	- Doesn't appear to measure up to the others mentioned;
		  seems to be a DOS leisure-oriented board


If anyone has worked with these or other comparable systems, please
email me--I would be interested in hearing about your positive and
negative experiences.

Thank you,
Mike Suter
-- 
mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu
