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Technology Stocks : Voice recognition - who will dominate?
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To: Skeet Shipman who wrote (36)6/4/1997 7:33:00 AM
From: Bullseye   of 81
 
> A good article. One company that I haven't seen mentioned on the
> speech recognition article or threads is Philips Electronics, who
> were the first to release a continious speech recognition computer > transcriper. I tried this product last year and it worked fairly
> well under low noise conditions on limited difficulty vocabularies
> such as radiology. (Difficulty ratings range from radiology - 20,
> business dictation - 225apx., literature poetry - 350)

As I understand it , Philips Electronics decreased funding because of small (disappoining) sales for their csr transcriper .. (I guess because of a too limited and very specific vocab ?)

> One thing most people in the field don't want to think about is that > 95% accuracy is not good enough for a commercial product except as a > novelty toy. And no one is even close to having a system work under
> normal usage noise conditions.

I think LHSPF has overcome that problem a long time ago .. I read some information regarding this topic on their website lhs.com .. (sorry , I cannot recall the specific htm file .. maybe you could try searching for 'noise' or something ..)

> It will be a long time, maybe in a decade before really useable
> general dictation products will be developed.

Which companies are you focusing on in the speech rec market ?
Any reason why ?

Thanks for your insight,
Regards,
Bulleye!
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