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To: franco nuvoloni who wrote (58242)	6/18/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: stak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>>>I think the best combination for PDAs is a pen AND voice interface. Intel has a chip named StrongArm which is designed to support those kind of application. What is needed though is a voice recognition engine that encompasses the limitations that today's HMM technology has, i.e. lack of speaker independence, lack of natural language understanding capabilities and lack of scalability.<<< At the same time that speaker independence is a problem to solve Re:voice recognition accuracy, it also offers a chance to "fingerprint" the voice giving a password kind of protection. A product this small would be extremely easy to steal, I would want some safeguards built in to make a stolen "voice PDA" unusable. >>>noise sensitivity,<<< Right now, I'd think that a "voice PDA" would be much like an early SONY Walkman. That is, a rather bulky unit with attached headphone and microphone. A headset with Andrea's noise cancellation technology would reduce the PDA's sensitivity to noise. Much later down the road, PDA's would be spoken to directly without the need for a headset. >>>My best guess is that within the next 12 months we should hear something in this respect.<<< Who do you think would intro this product? 3COM? or another unexpected company?? I"m surprised that Intel has not tried to bring out a product like this by themselves. C'mon Intel don't be chicken shit. Oh well, i guess SONY will come up with one someday.