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Date: Wed, 08-Mar-1989 11:38:55 From: Unknown Subject: voice recognition software >From: John Neubert <U1DF1@WVNVM> I heard the same "rumor" when the NeXT was first announced. CMU does have a history of voice (speech) recognition research (under Dr. Raj Reddy and others). I have heard nothing about the rumor for months. If you are aware of the promises of voice recognition since the early 1970s (Scope Electronics, Threshold Technology, Heuristics, Centigram, Dialog -- all of whom are belly up now -- except Centigram, which now does voice mail type applications) you must realize that the promise has still not been realized -- sort of the way AI that would do just about anything was predicted in the 1960s to be only 5 - 10 years away by the small group of "clergy" then at MIT. Don't get me wrong, I believe strongly that both will eventually happen; it's just a lot more complicated than the researchers (most) wish to admit. I don't know about CMU's current research -- haven't been really delving deeply into the field since 1981. However, I see you are in the medical field. You may be aware of the semi-voice recognition product that allows doctors to communicate prescriptions, etc, by voice (assuming that a doctor's voice is clearer than his/her writing ;-) ). Can't remember who developed the product. Read in some journal that it's now in some hospitals. If you seek products that perhaps help in such as speech pathology, try a small company in Denton, TX, called Scott Instruments. They have been used a number of places for such. Their founder, Brian Scott, was a speech researcher at UT (I think) -- unlike many other firms where the people are CS or EE types. Scott supposedly has a connected speech technology product. There is a magazine, called "Speech" I think, and a yearly conference put on by the publishers of the journal. Kurzweil promised a voice recognition typewriter last year or the year before. It probably got them a lot of funding and PR, but as far as I know nothing resulted. Soooo, believe it when you see (or hear) it. Good luck. John Neubert u1df1@wvnvm (u1df1@wvnvm.wvnet.edu) Coordinator, Planning & Analysis WVNET (West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing) Morgantown, WV ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sat, 18-Mar-1989 10:18:09 From: Unknown Subject: voice recognition software >From: Norbert Mueller <K360171@AEARN> Rumours say some NeXTs will be available in Europe in July. For universities only and at a price 2.5 times the U.S. price and unsupported. Sorry that's all I know as it was discussed on a recent Macintosh user's meeting - so far I do not know who's distributing it. Norbert Mueller Institute of Chemistry Johannes Kepler University A-4040 LINZ AUSTRIA BABYL OPTIONS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of NeXT Digest -- >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Date: Wed, 08-Mar-1989 11:38:55 From: Unknown Subject: voice recognition software >From: John Neubert <U1DF1@WVNVM> I heard the same "rumor" when the NeXT was first announced. CMU does have a history of voice (speech) recognition research (under Dr. Raj Reddy and others). I have heard nothing about the rumor for months. If you are aware of the promises of voice recognition since the early 1970s (Scope Electronics, Threshold Technology, Heuristics, Centigram, Dialog -- all of whom are belly up now -- except Centigram, which now does voice mail type applications) you must realize that the promise has still not been realized -- sort of the way AI that would do just about anything was predicted in the 1960s to be only 5 - 10 years away by the small group of "clergy" then at MIT. Don't get me wrong, I believe strongly that both will eventually happen; it's just a lot more complicated than the researchers (most) wish to admit. I don't know about CMU's current research -- haven't been really delving deeply into the field since 1981. However, I see you are in the medical field. You may be aware of the semi-voice recognition product that allows doctors to communicate prescriptions, etc, by voice (assuming that a doctor's voice is clearer than his/her writing ;-) ). Can't remember who developed the product. Read in some journal that it's now in some hospitals. If you seek products that perhaps help in such as speech pathology, try a small company in Denton, TX, called Scott Instruments. They have been used a number of places for such. Their founder, Brian Scott, was a speech researcher at UT (I think) -- unlike many other firms where the people are CS or EE types. Scott supposedly has a connected speech technology product. There is a magazine, called "Speech" I think, and a yearly conference put on by the publishers of the journal. Kurzweil promised a voice recognition typewriter last year or the year before. It probably got them a lot of funding and PR, but as far as I know nothing resulted. Soooo, believe it when you see (or hear) it. Good luck. John Neubert u1df1@wvnvm (u1df1@wvnvm.wvnet.edu) Coordinator, Planning & Analysis WVNET (West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing) Morgantown, WV ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sat, 18-Mar-1989 10:18:09 From: Unknown Subject: voice recognition software >From: Norbert Mueller <K360171@AEARN> Rumours say some NeXTs will be available in Europe in July. For universities only and at a price 2.5 times the U.S. price and unsupported. Sorry that's all I know as it was discussed on a recent Macintosh user's meeting - so far I do not know who's distributing it. Norbert Mueller Institute of Chemistry Johannes Kepler University A-4040 LINZ AUSTRIA BABYL OPTIONS: >From @BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU:NEXT-L@BROWNVM.BITNET Mon Apr 10 21:56:32 1989
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