11-14-2002, 10:44 PM
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Talk to the Machine
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep02/voic.html
If you've ever wanted to know exactly how voice recognition works, give this article a read - it's a very detailed write-up of the current status of voice recognition, and how the technology works. Very enlightening!
"Max Huang says he has something cool to show me. I'm skeptical: he's holding in his hand what looks like a PDA. It is a PDA, a Compaq 3600, to be exact, unadorned and, to my eyes, unremarkable. What's special is what's inside: this PDA understands what you say.
Huang and his colleagues at the Philips Speech Processing office in Taipei, Taiwan, have streamlined the company's standard speech recognition engine, meant for servers and PCs, to run instead on a PDA. It's just a prototype, Huang says, but the Mandarin-language recognizer can distinguish about 40 000 words and still not tax the Compaq's memory, power, or processing. With it, Huang can access his address book, schedule appointments, and dictate e-mail. Considering the alternative�poking away at the device's tiny display with a skinny stylus�I'm starting to be convinced: this does seem pretty cool."
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11-14-2002, 11:00 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2002
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awesome, now all I need is learning chinese so any iPAQ will understand me. mmm...
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11-14-2002, 11:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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hmmm...the promise of voice recognition on a PDA...haven't heard that before :roll:
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11-15-2002, 01:30 AM
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I think it's an inevitable evolution, but unfortunately I think it's still at least 3 years away. Hopefully I'm being pessimistic, but I think that's how long we have to wait still.
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11-15-2002, 02:13 AM
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I'm not so worried about voice recognition yet on my PDA. I would like a text to speech version on the version of Microsoft Reader, or any reader, for my PDA. Something with a human voice and human parsing.
Although asking, by voice, my PDA what the weather is outside, and having it answer, by voice, would be neat.
Edward
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11-15-2002, 04:34 AM
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well, the Pocket ViaVoice has been out for quite some time now, I tried it once, and it was ok, i guess.
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11-15-2002, 05:16 AM
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Originally Posted by mscdex
well, the Pocket ViaVoice has been out for quite some time now, I tried it once, and it was ok, i guess.
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If by ok you mean "understands about 10% of what you say" then yes.
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11-15-2002, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by ThomasC22
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Originally Posted by mscdex
well, the Pocket ViaVoice has been out for quite some time now, I tried it once, and it was ok, i guess.
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If by ok you mean "understands about 10% of what you say" then yes. |
10%???? Wow! What did you do to teach it so well?!?!? :lol:
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11-15-2002, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by ThomasC22
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Originally Posted by mscdex
well, the Pocket ViaVoice has been out for quite some time now, I tried it once, and it was ok, i guess.
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Well, It was about 50% of what I said or so. I can't quite remember since I had installed it a long while ago, and then I had uninstalled it because I guess I'm just a stylus person. And if my memory serves me well, another flaw pocket viavoice had was that it was limited to certain programs.
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11-15-2002, 05:59 AM
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Originally Posted by mscdex
Well, It was about 50% of what I said or so. I can't quite remember since I had installed it a long while ago, and then I had uninstalled it because I guess I'm just a stylus person. And if my memory serves me well, another flaw pocket viavoice had was that it was limited to certain programs.
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