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To: Dave Swanson who wrote (1436)	11/10/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

It's too bad NCII is not partners with one of these companies: "Sun Microsystems developed the Java Speech API with IBM Corp., Dragon Systems, Philips Speech Processing, Novell, Texas Instruments and AT&T in an open-standards process that also included contributions from 12 other companies."

To: Dave Swanson who wrote (1436)	11/10/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

Will this "open-standards process" have any affect on NCII?

To: Dave Swanson who wrote (1436)	11/10/1998 1:02:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

It is good to see that NCII is headed in the right direction: "Jackie Fenn, vice president and research director of Advanced Technologies and Ap-plications at Gartner Group, told a conference audience that she believes speech technology will continue to mature as an input mechanism between 1998 and 2008. During that time, Fenn predicts, speech will move from telephony dialogue to corporate deployment of dictation products and eventually to intelligent-agent interfaces on mainstream products. (An intelligent-agent program gathers information or performs some other service without a user's immediate presence and on some regular schedule.)"

To: Dave Swanson who wrote (1436)	11/10/1998 1:07:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

Well, we know NCII is going in the right direction, but are they ready for the future: "In three to five years, instead of focusing on dictation and one-way, limited-domain conversations, the technology will focus on interaction with the computer, which will have a programmable personality and perform intelligent-agent functions, Bidstrup predicted."

To: Dave Swanson who wrote (1436)	11/10/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

This may be the fast growing market of the future: "Further, Bidstrup listed some of the barriers to the technology, including poor sound-card drivers and a lack of microphone technology that enables ease of use and robust capture of speech in noisy environments." The company that creates the superior sound-card drivers will be able to set prices at levels where there would be profit on the bottom line of that company's income statement.

To: Dave Swanson who wrote (1436)	11/10/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: paulbk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

Dave, Check this out- tr-i.com Rundgren has long been one of my favorites and now,consistent with his interest in all things technical, he's providing a pathway with this subscription idea. I don't think it will be too long before other artists follow his lead and it will be made much easier with a steady supply of flash player/recorders from some large,as yet un-named supplier. Best,p.b.