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Date: Sun 09-Jan-1989 05:47:29 From: Unknown Subject: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac?? In article <6890> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes: | >>>Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10 | >>>years away, can it? | >>>-Peter Schachte | diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) writes: | >Well, in 1956, in an advertisement on the back cover of Scientific | >American, speech recognition equipment was only 4 years away. | And 1989 - (1956 + 4) = *29* years. Now we're down to only 5 or 10. | Say, that's progress! -- It's here! -- But how come there are no Speech Recognition boards for the Macintosh? There are plenty for IBM PC's. Both Speaker Dependent (you have to teach them your voice first) and Speaker Independent (they'll recognize anybody's voice, but only recognize a limited vocabulary of words) Here are some speech recognition products that are available today for IBM's: VOTAN Voice Card: Using continuous recognition, vocabulary words may be spoken in a natural, conversational flow withourt having to pause between the words. The board recognizezs words from a user's library of word templates. The Votan Voice Card will hold approximately 300 continuous templates and 300 isolated templates Through the use of vocabulary swapping the vocabulary size is constrained only by the computer's memory. The Votan Voice Card has been field tested at 100 decibels with 99% accuracy. The card can operate in any language. [Votan, 4487 Technology Drive, Fremont, CA 94538 (415) 490-7600] Voice Control Systems VCS1000 is a multifunctional speaker-independent voice recognition module for IBM pc's. The VCS 1000 comes with specialized vocabularies such as the "Voice Director" module which allows the recognition of 41 control words such as On, Off, Begin, Stop, Faster, Slower, Left, Right, Up, Down, Forward, Backward, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and zero). This module is useful for factory machine control. Other modules are available and it is also possible to connect the VCS 1000 to the telephone line for speaker independent voice recognition over public switched telephone network. [Voice Control Systems, 14140 Midway Rd Ste 100, Dallas, TX 75244 214-386-5555] Covox, Inc Voice Master PC Digitizer with Voice Recognition is capable of recognizing 64 user-trained words or phrases. User can control the vocabulary syntax and recognition accureacy. Recognition voice templates can be saved to disk. Speech recording and recognition software can be used together for a two way verbal exchange with your computer. [Covox, Inc, 675 Conger St, eugene, Oregon 97402 (503)-342-1271] Speech Systems Incorporated Speech Input Development Syste allows recognition of continuous speech. Not only words, but also phrases and complete sentences. SSI's Speach Input Development System can recognize speech from a variety of speakers. (i.e. it is Speaker Independent) [Speech Systems Inc, 18356 Oxnard St, Tarzana, CA 91356 (818)-881-0885] DRAGON Systems Inc. VOICESCRIBE voice recognition systems allow an active vocabulary of 1000 user difined words and phrases with 99.5% recognition accuracy. It is language independent and functions equally well in noisy environments. It operates on a speaker dependent basis, or with proper training from a cross-section of people, on a speaker independent basis. [Dragon Systems, Inc 90 Bridge St., Newton, MA 02158 (617) 965-5200] Westinghouse Voice Systems Series 1000 Voice Data Entry System offers Speaker Dependent Voice Recognition for data collection. It also offers text to speech voice synthesis. [Westinghouse Voice Systems, East Park 1, Rodi Rd. Pgh, PA 15235 412-825-3500] Astronics ASTROVOIS Voice Operated Information System offers a vocabulary of 1000 speaker dependent words for industrial inspection systems. It is a standard size PC card and comes with 8 diskettes of software. [Astronics, 12501 Prosperity Dr Ste 250 Silver Sprg, MD 20904 (3012)-680-0880] The Voice Connection InfroVoice VI offers Voice Recognition and Speech Synthesis for the IBM PC/XT/AT and PS/2 Model 30. It is a half-size circuit board that offers voice recognition of 500 words with an accurace better than 98%. [Voice Connection, 17835 Skypark Circle, Ste C, Irvine CA 92714 714-261-2366] *** So where are the Voice Recognition systems for the Mac??? *** - Anybody have experience with any of the above mentioned products? Comments? - Anybody know of any other Voice Recognition products for the MAC or IBM? - How about Voice Response (Touchtone) Systems (ala WATSON)? ---end of forwarded message--- >From: pkahn@meridian.ads.com (Phil Kahn)
Date: Sun 09-Jan-1989 17:51:12 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac?? In article <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> pam@uhccux.UUCP (.) writes: > >-- It's here! -- But how come there are no Speech Recognition boards for the >Macintosh? There are plenty for IBM PC's. Both Speaker Dependent (you have to >teach them your voice first) and Speaker Independent (they'll recognize >anybody's voice, but only recognize a limited vocabulary of words) > Check the 7/19/88 MacWEEK (front page). There are two boards from a company called Articulate Systems (415-549-1013). A 1000 word board (VoiceNavigator1000, $1250) and a 200 word board (VoiceNavigator200, $750). Requires training (i.e., speaker dependent). Clever interface to Mac. Is SCSI and ADB based. Two modes for use: 1) program interrupts when keyword detected, 2) have keyword recognition imitate keyboard or mouse action (so it can be front-ended to most applications). I have no experience with the board whatsoever except for literature and conversations with the company. phil... >From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Date: Sun 10-Jan-1989 17:47:19 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac?? In article <6562@zodiac.UUCP> pkahn@ads.com (Phil Kahn) writes: >In article <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> pam@uhccux.UUCP (.) writes: >>... how come there are no Speech Recognition boards for the Macintosh? >Check the 7/19/88 MacWEEK (front page). There are two boards from a >company called Articulate Systems (415-549-1013). A 1000 word board >(VoiceNavigator1000, $1250) and a 200 word board (VoiceNavigator200, $750). Just a point of information: These aren't boards, they're boxes. Being SCSI peripherals, they can be used with any Mac that has a SCSI port, i.e. Mac Plus or later. David Casseres >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
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