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From: hoequist@brtph8ee.bnr.ca (Charles Hoequist P250)
Subject: Re: AI combined with Speech and Robot?
Message-ID: <1994Aug19.121204.22969@brtph560.bnr.ca>
Sender: hoequist@brtph8ee (Charles Hoequist P250)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 12:12:04 GMT
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In article <330h5v$cns@sousa.amt.ako.dec.com>, barnes@sousa.amt.ako.dec.com (Troy Barnes) writes:
|> PLEASE respond to the net for everyone else also:  this account is 
|> about to be de-activated.
|> 
|> Has anyone dealt with Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition,
|> and Speech Synthesis?
|> 
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I'm not sure that this is exactly what you're looking for,
but Chris Schmandt of the MIT Media Lab and some of his
students worked up something called Phone Slave in the late
80s combining ASR, AI and synthesis. The point was to 
have a sort of automated secretary that handled
transactions in an intelligent way, e.g. intellgently
query when speech input is not understood (User:
"Schedule a meeting with <mumble> at noon",  system: "Who did
you want to schedule a meeting with?"), elicit 
useful responses from callers for voicemail (instead of
just "At the tone, please leave a message"), know
when it's being addressed (not trying to recognize speech
when the user is talking to someone on the phone), and
similar features.
Articles have appeared in various journals dealing with HMI.

Hope this helps.

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