Re: IBM just announced speech recognition: was (Re: gnome and handicapped access..)

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> 
> <smirk>
> 
> Sorry, Elliot. I didn't mean any harm. But speech recognition of that
> caliber would require a great deal of study before it could be attempted I
> would suspect. My intent wasn't to discourage anyone from beginning to
> develop a speech recognition tool, but rather to suggest that we don't
> hold our breath and instead adopt IBM's until such time as there is a
> promising package with a friendlier license.

On the Amiga, there was a fellow who wrote a program called VCLI which
allowed you to control your CLI on the Amiga through voice.  It worked
after a fashion.  It was slow and clunky but it worked about 60% of
the time.  If you could find the algorithm he used that potentially
can be a base for our own speech recognition.

	sri

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