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From: nickm@iat.holonet.net (Nicholas G. Marino)
Subject: Re: Continuous Speech.
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 06:17:47 GMT
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ksanthan@uclink.berkeley.edu (Kumaran Santhanam) writes:
: In article <dak.730169529@messua> dak@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) writes:
: >I rather suggest you get different hardware. I find speech sampled and
: >reproduced using the Soundblaster card rather unintelligable (is that
: >word right? looks wrong) regarding human reception, especially
: >concerning female voices. So I'd guess that a computer would hardly
: >fare better (usually most computer systems fare worse than the
: >average human).
: >-- 
: > David Kastrup        dak@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de          
: > Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502
: > Goethestr. 20, W-5100 Aachen, Germany
: 
: The speech quality on my SB Pro is excellent.  It sounds just like the person
: is there talking to me...I don't understand to what you are referring??!!
: 
: Kumaran

Sound Blasters, especially the older ones, have poor electrical interfaces
for direct microphone connection.  Good quality speech can be recorded by
putting a preamplifier between the microphone and the board.

As for speech recognition using the SB, our company (Telaccount Inc.
215-664-2410) sells an excellent isolated word speaker dependent speech
recognizer which uses the SB.  We're hard at work on a continuous speech
recognizer and preliminary indications are that the older SBs will suffice.

