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To: Mike Hardy who wrote (7277)	11/12/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

<i didn't mean the wave file, i meant composing a new email message simply by speaking into the phone(voice to text).> So, you are saying that GMGC can do dictation from a cell phone? I'd say no. All they can do is record your voice on a .wav file and let the e-mail receiver listen to it like voicemail. If they could do this, they would be an entirly different type of company. Something like L & H or Dragon. Even Nuance can't do dictation. At this stage and it does change, the files required to do dictation need to be speaker dependent. Dragon for example creates a file of nearly 20 megabytes for ever user. The system simply doesn't work unless you train it. Compare that to a system like Portico where anyone dials up and expects it to work immediately. There is not specific user speech file. It has a smaller vocabulary and they must deal with a lot of noise and perhaps a poor microphone. The speaker independent IVR needs to have a smaller vocabulary. So, it's hard to say that you could actually write the letter you want. Even with a good computer and good software dedicated to speak dependent dictation, you'll not get a satisfactory result without editing. Regards, Mark