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From: hallmh@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martin H Hall")
Subject: Re: Recording telephone speech input
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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 06:45:23 GMT
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> If you're doing speech recognition work, you might be better off 
> recording training data that passes through the local telephone 
> company central office instead of just using local PBX connections.
> That way you'll capture the wide variety of distortions imposed by
> the network.

True, except we're intending to limit ourselves entirely to intra-PBX 
communications, for both training and recognition. The PSTN obviously 
doesn't have a bearing here.
