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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 <38e40a$30f@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, meitien@aol.com (MeiTien) says:
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>In article <CxzIuA.21or@hawnews.watson.ibm.com>,
>orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson) writes:
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>Ora,
>
>Thanks for your response. I am thinking about using ICSS for Chinese. I
>have tried Voice Assist for Chinese pronounced commands, and the program
>trained with the voice and then just follows it nicely. Thanks for the
>example for Frech, I would assue it is for non-trained use?
>
>Mei-Tien

Mei-Tien:

ICSS is totally non-trained, that is, it is speaker-independent.  About a year ago, I
wrote an ICSS demo called Speaking In Tongues.  I had 15 common phrases translated into
8 different languages (including Chinese).  Then I created the grammars and addendum
dictionary for the foreign phrases.  The demo allows the user to select the From and To
language (like "From English to Chinese").  Then they can say one of the 15 phrases in
the From language, and hear it back in the To language.

It demos quite well and native speakers love it!

Ora.
