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To: studdog who wrote (52113)	4/5/1998 1:38:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Speech recognition. I'm wondering what specific market needs the power of the new Intel chips for this application? For normal dictation and aural system commands I'm running Dragon Systems "Naturally Speaking" on both a Pentium/166 and a PII/266. I don't notice any difference between the machines. Both allow me to speak at a normal rate and after a couple hours of training and vocabulary building it's very accurate. Got a couple of friends to buy the software for their college kids, and I know one uses it successfully on a P200. IBM has been selling a lot of their ViaVoice product and it must work on existing machines since it seems to be quite popular. A number of companies now include it in the software package, (even a K6/233). So while it may in fact turn out to be the next "killer ap", (I think it will be more of a novelty for the next couple years), what about it requires greater performance? There have even been good text to audio converters around for a number of years, and they work quite well on a P/133. I'm sure there may be some recognition applications that require more power, but for general usage existing machines seem quite sufficient. (It may be an ap that will create upgrades from 386/486 machines, but Pentium will handle it). What am I missing?