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From: ebohlman@netcom.com (Eric Bohlman)
Subject: Re: Looking for DOS/PCMCIA voice recognition solution
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John Nissen (jn@tommy.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <D530En.HoB@bcsaic.boeing.com>
:            janin@bcsaic.boeing.com "Adam Janin" writes:

: > I need to do simple voice recognition in DOS on a portable PC. Speaker
: > dependent, separated speech is sufficient. 

: Me too, in an application for blind people.  Want speech recognition 
: on cheap laptop.  What's the cheapest portable configuration with SR -
: (a) where SR for commands, letters, numbers only  (b) where SR for
: full vocab, even if words have to be spoken disjointedly?  

Er, why does an application for blind people need speech *input*, as 
opposed to speech *output*?  I sell a few programs aimed at blind users, 
and none of my customers have trouble with the keyboard.  They simply 
touch-type, something that blind people can do as well as sighted people.

