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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (94520)	12/22/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: Robert Douglas	Respond to of 186894

Ten, Your post made me think about an article in "Upside" a few weeks ago that talked about how voice recognition will demand processors much more powerful than we have today. Excerpt below: So, at the risk of sounding like Bill Gates in the early '80s when he reportedly claimed that nobody would ever need more than 640K of RAM, what are desktop PCs going to do with all that horsepower? Talk to me. Aside from powering the ever more gothic and (occasionally) more useful graphic interfaces that grow like kudzu over every new digital service, desktop PCs will expend an increasing amount of CPU time listening to their masters' voices. Programmers have been chasing natural-language interfaces, from handwriting to speech recognition. But despite increasing progress from companies such as IBM and Dragon Systems, reliable voice-recognition systems have danced tantalizingly out of reach, largely for want of processing power. Microsoft has invested heavily in speech technology research and development for years. According to Craig Mundie, Microsoft's senior vice president of consumer strategy, the payoff is close. "We're getting within striking distance," he says. "Probably in five years, we'll have enough capacity to deal with natural-language input on a desktop PC." upside.com