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To: nihil who wrote (66984)	10/18/1998 9:07:00 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

sunday nytimes intel article nytimes.com

To: nihil who wrote (66984)	10/18/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

nihil, I appreciate your sincere effort to unfold your understanding of the problem of spoken language recognition. Some places in your post were good, "the misunderstandings (complicated by inadequate or failing intelligence) of debates on the net" for example. You even get the point about emotional coloring correctly. However, all your main points are wrong, and represents a typical thinking of a person with too much of humanitarian background and very little of the technical one. Actually your points are not exactly wrong, they are frequently irrelevant and too superficial to the topic. While "mapping" between dictionaries of arbitrary signs is really not a problem when the signs are well separable, the real problem is in robust recognition of fuzzy images in the continuous arbitrary speech. Try ebonics for example:) <the other way -- from the computer text to spoken English or Chinese is no harder,> You may want to try some serious technical articles on the subject first. You seem to take the recognition part too lightly. It is well established that the speech recognition is _incomparably_ harder problem than synthesis. <Let's bet. I say that in 5 years most users will speak more into the computer than we type.> Considering the change in computer usage, I would not bet against this. However, these devices will constitute a new class of "informational appliances" and will compute basicly nothing. And it does not look to me that Intel will be playing the major role supplying these devices. In other words, forget about this "killer" application.