Charles: Pay special attention to what I said about "training" and user "practice". That is what over comes the issues you have mentioned. The problem of dialectic slippage becomes a major issue if your working with a person who has a degenerative disease and their speech shifts over the day or over the month.
John Oram Ghost in the Machine wrote: > > Hello John - > ---------- > > IMO the speech recognition technology being developed for small form > > factor telephony, and, their interrelated radio base stations, and, > > interconnected voice/data wireline networks will have a longer term > > impact than pen-based/slate PCs on the average consumer. > > I've been watching both speech-recoginition and simple text-to-speech > develop over the two decades plus that I have been interested in computers. > > It seems most overlook the fact that a good deal of our `speech' involves > colloquialisms and eupherisms with dialect thrown in even within various > regions of the USA. Johny Carson (TV late night talk show host) said he > was hired, in part, because he had no regional dialect. His speech patterns > are referred to as mid-western American dialect. TV news persons practice > speaking in this fashion. > > >From the North to the South (US) people complain about the speed at which > Northerners speak. What speed will be used? Nothern or Southern? > > I guess my question(s) would be, OK speech but which version and what > language? My first text-to-speech hardware had a Swedish accent that > amused my children but was extremely obvious even when using phenomes > in place of the original text to attempt corrections of pronunciation. > > My wild-eyed guess is that futher research will combine plant life with what > we now think of as computers. We will have talking plants. Since trees > can live for hundreds of years we could have a tree-like plant that could > remember conversations with our great grandparents and would have the > advantage of a wide perspective of change/history to use to advise us > in our daily lives. > > I know, sounds extreme but we are discussing talking rocks here right now > (in reality silicon-based talking rocks). LOL > > Charles.Angelich > > DOS the Ghost in the Machine! > > Family And Friends wepages - Multimedia > orginal stories with animation and sound, > poetry, music, and photography: > http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf > Tech pages for DOS and W31 at: > http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
