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To: Z Analyzer who wrote (6768)	12/15/1997 11:20:00 PM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (2) of 9124

I am dictating this post using IBM's new ViaVoice Gold. Voice recognition technology is very exciting from the standpoint of the demands it places on computer resources. I have a one hundred sixty-six MHz Pentium non MMX computer with 32 megabytes of RAM and a 1. 6 gigabyte hard drive. This seems to the the minimum configuration acceptable for IBM's voice recognition technology. And I find that this is the first application I have used that makes me wish for more power and more random access memory. I have noticed a number of voice recognition products in the store now and prices have come down dramatically. The range seems to be 75 to one hundred and fifty dollars. Both the Dragon system and IBM systems are supposed to now recognize continuous speech with a high degree of accuracy and I am finding in my early use that this promise holds true. It is clear to me that today's one thousand dollar PC is virtually obsolete when it comes to running this type of software. Perhaps when more powerful computers are available at one thousand dollars they will not be immediately obsolete, but then we are beginning to see more promise of cable modems in the near future. The good news for the disk drive companies is that this software requires a minimum of one hundred MB, and I understand, that a as the program adds vocabulary its use can grow to as high as five hundred megabytes of disk drive space. Clearly the systems shipping to day with small disk drives will soon require updates if voice recognition becomes widespread.

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