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Technology Stocks : IDTI - an IC Play on Growth Markets
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To: Rob S. who wrote (8019)4/25/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Gordon Quickstad  Read Replies (2) of 11555
 
Ha ha ha. And it's a good thing those beings from outer space didn't learn english with a cockney accent or 90% of the english speaking world still wouldn't be able to understand them! So, they must be intercepting American television and learning it that way. When we non-government-official types finally get to one of their ships before the men in black and before it gets hauled off to area 51, we'll probably find out these creatures talk and act like our TV commercials and otherwise show no intelligence.

I've installed and tested Kurzweil voice recognition software for a business acquaintance. He purchased it because the salesman said that Kurzweil does a lot of IBM's voice recognition work. I know IBM has worked in this area for decades and apparently has little to show for it from the lack of voice products on the shelves of my local software store. The Kurzweil product just doesn't work well for me. It's slow and every word must be paused before the next and it only gets about 90% of them correct. There's a 20-30 minute voice training exercise that automatically pops up after about 800 words into program and after that my 200 Mhz Pentium Pro crunched numbers for what must have been 10-20 minutes (I went away). After the training routine, it showed almost no improvement. Some basic simple words I just could not get it to get right no matter how often I repeated them and tried enunciations (I'll try it with my teeth in next time). My friend's ideas of selling this to lawyers was dashed.
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