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From: orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson)
Subject: Re: IBM ICSS and Custom Voice
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In article <383njg$at@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, meitien@aol.com (MeiTien) says:
>
>Have anyone used IBM ICSS along with Custom Voice VBX? What do you like
>about it? 
>
>Can you use ICSS for foreign language recognition?
>
>Thanks
>Mei-Tien

I have not yet used the Custom Voice VBX but I am planning on it pretty soon.
I'll keep you posted.

ICSS is not built for recognition of foreign languages, but it can simulate
it.  Since you have the ability to addend to the pre-existing ICSS, by creating
and addendum dictionary, you can define the phonemes for the foreign words in that
addendum dictionary.  For instance, the French word AVEZ-VOUS, which means "do you have...?"
can be defined as follows in the dictionary:

	AVEZ-VOUS	AA V EY V UW

Then, when you are defining the grammar for the application (the set of words and phrases),
you can include the word AVEZ-VOUS.

Although the Windows version of ICSS has a tool to create the phonemes for you when you
say the word, it is not built to handle the rules of any other language but US English.
So I recommend that you do this manually, as you do with the OS/2 and AIX versions of the
ICSS Developer's Toolkit.

Hope this is helpful!

Regards,
Ora Williamson
ICSS Technical Liason


