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Technology Stocks : Fonix:Voice Recognition Product (FONX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dr. Bob who wrote (1488)	12/11/1997 4:07:00 PM
From: Mark Cox	Respond to of 3347

Bob, no question about the importance of support from the experts in HMM. I suspect that the two technology's are different enough that the HMM people are not much better off than our 'lay' selves. I have no argument with the idea that support from the HMM people would be the BEST third party endorsement. On vocab...I'm also frustrated that fonix have not exploited thier technology to do what they suggest is a formality, cope with an almost unlimited vocabulary. Why would'nt they do this? I don't know. I can only suppose that its not a priority. Given the urgency to negotiate deals, preparing the technology demo to an impressive level for lay people is simply not worthwhile when the key technologists from Siemens and other groups already see 'the writing on the wall'. They simply have no need to do this. It might have cost the stock but they are getting deals. A difficult line to walk along. The HMM crowd are the ones arguably who are painting themselves into a corner. I am hearing that the Dragon and IBM products though enormously improved are in fact still user unfriendly enough to frustrate owners. But I totally agree that an agreement with an IBM over products with the fonix engine would have an extra edge to it. Parx