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

To: Dr. Bob who wrote (1545)	1/3/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3347

FONX certainly appears to have put together an impressive team and have to say I was very impressed with the information presented on their website. From what little I know about this subject, theirs is a bold and ambitious strategy. Having said that, the fact that they seem preoccupied on selling investors and consumed with the value of their stock is a very large neon sign flashing danger. Undoubtedly the management is enjoying its stay at the helm of this glamourous, high-tech enterprise and they are doing a masterful job of selling the concept. Unfortunately, their bold assertions do not guarantee the existence of commercially meaningful technology; nor by any means do they rule that out. What I would like to see is a general description of where the technology is and what the current problems and limitations are. I'm not buying the idea that they can't provide that without compromising trade secrets. I think the general idea is that conventional VR is based on individuals training the system versus FONX built-in ability to delineate information common to all speakers, human or otherwise, for a given word. Some dimension outside of relative time, frequency, amplitude and phase or some combination of these from which the brain can select a specific word or phrase. So the real benefit here is general and complete speaker independence versus limited to zero speaker independence. Let's take a court room, for example, where they use humans to transcribe speech or simply record the raw information on tape. Of course a telecommunications device is another obvious application. OK, fine but where's the beef!