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To: Apollo who wrote (29635)	8/8/2000 12:29:06 PM
From: Tom Chwojko-Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

I've been watching the Voice Recognition market from afar for emerging tornadoes. I don't think there's a tornado anywhere near voice recognition until the software becomes trivial to use. It takes a bunch of training of the software to get it working right. Not many people are willing to put in that kind of effort, because it ends up taking twice as long for voice input to correct all the mistakes, or to undo the incorrect operation performed. The technology has a very long way to go before even the early adopters will be enamored with it. Tom CF

To: Apollo who wrote (29635)	8/8/2000 12:39:26 PM
From: mauser96	Respond to of 54805

More often than not, these kind of questions have at least some basis in fact , and in any case the stock will be under a cloud for a while. Earnings report is due today after the close so this may help, but not if nobody trusts management. It's hard to imagine why management would be so positive this morning and report lousy earnings this afternoon. The lawyers will have happy hunting grounds here unless earnings are good.It's possible that the faulty information about Korea was prepared by some underling and has nothing to do with profit. Fortunately my investment is limited to a very small trial position. I had a long series of private messages with Thomas Mercer- Hursh, and he convinced me that big profits from speech recognition were probably a lot further off than I had anticipated, so I reduced my LHSP holdings. I agree that LHSP has a bad risk reward ratio at this time, at least for conservative investors like myself. regards Luke