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To: art slott who wrote (3215)	6/8/1998 6:49:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Respond to of 8218

Art, that stuff's old hat. It isn't a surprize, because it happens so regularly with large companies in general, that ideas spawned years ago independent of any work IBM did appears on their podium as if they thought of it. Digital ids, speech recognition, language interfaces, the "need for networking"... they aren't IBM's creations.. but they are areas where IBM feels it can leverage its size, manufacturing technolog and marketing clout. As to this Spring's numbers being off, yes.. and the next quarter also in my opinion such that it will be prudent for anyone to trim some holdings now because you will be able to buy back in at lower prices. I do like the Equifax deal, but Equifax will be the greatest beneficiary in the deal. Jim

To: art slott who wrote (3215)	6/8/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: Arrow Hd.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

Speech recognition in Asian countries with multiple dialects using extensive characters is going to be very big. A company I follow (and have owned but dont own now) specializes in chinese character input systems (ZiCorp -ZICAF). This gets complicated and is not like what we accept with english language key-boards. It is not user friendly but works better than nothing. IBM has announced certain levels of speech recognition as was pointed out in this article. But ultimately to get full acceptance in China and to some degree in Japan and Korea of PC use interfacing to the Internet I believe that some practical form of speech recognition is required to get beyond the key stroke dilemmas.