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To: Ali Chen who wrote (28629)	2/15/2001 2:40:39 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Speech recognition has been a computer science holy grail for a long time. Bill Gates talks about it all the time, though Microsoft hasn't exactly shown anything useful that I know of. I imagine that speech recognition for text input will get pretty commonplace soon enough, but for actually telling computers what to do? I'm quite skeptical too, it's hard enough telling people what to do, and they got a lot of specialized hardwired dedicated to the task, along with a genetic endowment. Open the pod bay door, Hal. -Win.

To: Ali Chen who wrote (28629)	2/15/2001 4:46:45 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Ali, Re: speech recognition I think people who expect too much will be disappointed. If you have someone who is too stupid to ask the correct question, no software, and no amount of computer power will likely help him. But speech recognition is already helpful if used in a limited way, for example, in the voice response lines, instead of giving orders and selecting stuff by pressing numbers (or spelling things) using phone handset, speech recognition can actually work very well. Just how successful will the right system be, I can just tell you my recent experience: In NYC, they have this line that tells you where movies are playing. I called it from a cell phone, on a noisy street, and the thing was able to understand my thick accent the name of the movie and the zip code of area I was looking for. Not bad. Joe PS: Went to see the shadow of the vampire. Not bad.