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To: mauser96 who wrote (27300)	7/5/2000 9:06:39 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

The human brain is unique amongst primates in having relatively large areas devoted to speech Errrr, chimps, gorillas, and orangs (don't know that anyone has tried gibbons yet) all have quite developed language skills and corresponding brain centers. Check out koko.org to see this in action, or, better yet koko.org IMHO, speech recognition for the individual has been incorrectly marketed. Frankly, in a significant way, I think the issue is more that speech recognition itself is still technologically pre-chasm. Even the best of current packages require significant training to be optimally (or even satisfactorily) effective. I think this is likely to keep it out of the consumer mass market and is certainly a barrier even in the commercial mass market.