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To: stak who wrote (58259)	6/18/1998 6:11:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Stak, et al, I'd like to talk about voice recognition PCs at the desktop level, or, whatever form of PC might be used in business office environments when voice recognition is mainstream. I have some dumb questions, but first, some background: most office areas have one of two kinds of "layouts", or landscapes, if you will. One is the "cube" arrangement, as in the Dilbert comic strip, and the other is offices with doors that close, if you wish. If everyone is busily speaking into his/her computer, won't we get a cacophony of human noise? Won't it be distracting to everyone in the area (unless you close your door, if you have one, and then you look "not open for business")? Worse, won't it be an audio soup that the computer microphones hear, something like the RF background from all the stars or the crowd noise at a ballgame? Maybe it won't be as bad as I make it: 1. Not everyone is on his/her computer all the time. 2. Maybe the input microphone doesn't pick up audio unless it's very close (the user right in front of the machine), rejecting lower level (decibel) voices from all around. 3. Maybe the microphone is very direction sensitive. Anyone working on this problem, I wonder? If voice recognition is a killer app to be, maybe Intel should. Sounds like a cool project, anyhow. Tony

To: stak who wrote (58259)	7/15/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: franco nuvoloni	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Stak, About a month ago we were exchanging some thoughts about how nice it would be to have a pen and voice enabled PDA. One of the questions was which company might come up with something like that. Well, I found this post on Yahoo, you might want to have a look at it, here's the story: <<You raise a good point about this company not being ready to harvest yet. However, please explain Ron Cole's statement about Fonix dominating the planet? Do you know more than Ron Cole? I know I don't! Doesn't his project lead you think this stock will reach $4.50 again? Isn't that "evidence"? Look back at last year's fundamentals at the time of the shareholders' meeting. No Seimans. No Articulate. No 3D Planet. No AcuVoice. No Elan. No Papryus. No Fluent Speech Tech. I was very bearish after last year's meeting. I believe those posts are still available. I was selling after last year's meeting I was buying after this year's meeting. Now project one year out? Intel? Micron? Phillips? Seimans? Microsoft? Rome wasn't built in a day. Marc PS You are incorrect that there were no confirmed new deals. I believe today is the first day that Elan, Fluent and Papryus were disclosed publicly. The president of Papryus gave a presentation and confirmed that they were working with Fonix on developing a product for future palm pilot type devices.>> This post is in reference to a shareholder meeting held yesterday by fonx and this guy attended the meeting. I think I am not too far out with my 12 months time horizon. Hope this helps you to continue to research this very promising product development. Any thoughts from your part or anybody else is very appreciated. Best wishes, Frank ÿ PS. Of course, only the PS part of the pasted message would be of interest to you.