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To: Paul Engel who wrote (66718)	10/16/1998 1:57:00 AM
From: Aaron Cooperband	Respond to of 186894

Paul - Re: "that doesn't sound so simple" I agree, however the problem is that there are only 46 sounds in the Japanese alphabet and there are tens of thousands of Kanji characters that these can represent. Obviously there is a GREAT deal of redundancy - with one sound mapping onto many Kanji characters. The only way to handle this is with a menu-type system as I described, or with a pen operated system as Gary Ng has mentioned. Even if there were a Japanese voice recognition system, the user would still be forced to choose the appropriate Kanji. Conceivably, the software might be able to choose the most appropriate based on context, but even in conversation Japanese often resort to scribbling out characters on their hands to be understood! Aaron