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Subject: RE: Voice recognition will never kill the keyboard was: Re:
Evolution of the Apple Mouse
On 1 Oct 2010 at 10:39, Ian King wrote:
Yes, we were licensing TTS stuff from L&H,
and then one day....
It's amazing how slowly the wheels of justice can turn. This, from
Wikipedia:
"On 20 September 2010, co-founders Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, as
well as Nico Willaert, former vice chairman, and Gaston Bastiaens,
former chief executive officer, were each sentenced to 5 years prison
(of which 3 years effective and 2 years probationary) for fraud by
the Ghent Court of Appeals. However, due to the endemnic problem of
overcrowding in Belgian prisons and the policy of not executing
sentences of 3 years or less, it is quite unlikely any of them will
actually serve any time."
--Chuck
Thanks for the pointer. Wow, that's ancient history - I worked on speech around the
time my daughter was born, and she's in middle school. :-)