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To: TwoToTango who wrote (106064)	3/2/1999 5:46:00 AM
From: Patrick E.McDaniel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

2, think of the potential of voice recognition. All we need is a voice synthesizer to replace typing on the screen. Program in the persons you like such as Robbin Williams. Then, not only could you talk to your computer but it could talk back to you. On second thought, maybe I would rather have Maralyn Monroe giving me stock reports, weather forcasts and a nice bedtime story! :o)

To: TwoToTango who wrote (106064)	3/2/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: Kenneth Aird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

I would be very interested if someone has done an apples to apples comparison of the same voice recognition software with the same speaker and microphone and the same level of training on a PII vs a PIII. If what you say is true, then all the comments I have been reading that the PIII is only a minor improvement over the PII are WRONG! I have tried IBM Via Voice and found its errors to be very humorous. While its speed was acceptable with a 400 mhz PII, its level of accuracy would reduce the productivity of anyone who knows how to touch type. I know the level of accuracy has a lot to do with the amount of pattern matching the software has time to do, probably involving Fast Fourier Transforms and the like. Some of the new PIII instructions are supposed to be aimed at speeding up this sort of calculation. Of course this might also mean that in a few years we will be using Pentium 4 based cell phones instead of PCs. If that happens, I'm sure Dell will have them first :) Ken

To: TwoToTango who wrote (106064)	3/2/1999 10:10:00 AM
From: Chadick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Interesting comments about voice recognition. Dragon Systems,a private company founded in 1982, is to have an IPO in the next few weeks. A story was in the NY Times 3/1/1999. I gather from the story that the more powerful the computing power is, the quicker software developers can make advances; which should lead to a much larger market and lower priced software. When this happens, people will not ask why they need a P3 or whatever it evolves into; a killer app will be here. IBM,Phillips Electronics NV and Microsoft are all developing speech-recognition software. How much more demand will there be for DELL computers? I am not a technical person, so someone who is, please comment. Fred