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To: stak who wrote (60619)	7/17/1998 3:20:00 AM
From: franco nuvoloni	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Stak, <<The medical and legal environments have been early adopters of voice dictation in previous years. They both have professionals who have the money to spend on this kind of product. Also they have under gone many years of study and training so, training a machine to recognize a user's pronounciation should not be too much of an inconvenience>> This is exactly what they won't need to do. The fonix voice rec tech is speaker independent. They have totally departed from today's HMM approach and use a multi layer neural net approach. The most reputed industry experts have joined fonix and even Dragon, up to now the industry's best dictation product provider, is in strategic alliances negotiations with fonix. One other major advantage is the robustness in noisy environments, i.e. you don't need to almost swallow a microphone, you can use an off the shelve normal mic. IMHO, these capabilities are mandatory to succeed with such a product. It will be fun to follow this company in the future, especially considering a possible Intel alliance. Hope to have given you some useful info, I'd appreciate an ongoing discussion on this issue. Best wishes, Frank