28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
12:25 p.m.
Hi Doug and all,
At 04:59 PM 10/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
In a recent "Electronic Design" magazine, the column "40 years
ago", there
was an article about IBM and digitized speech. It is an interesting column,
as well as Bob Pease's.
-Dave
Unless you used "1000 word vocab" to
qualify the claim, in which case I
still think there may be an earlier contender. Speech recongition goes
back a long way, perhaps as far back as the 50s.
Yes, commercial and 1000 word vocab were the qualifiers; let me know if
you still challenge the claim, otherwise it gets immortalized in a web
page soon.
And given that AI didn't really get started until around 1960, and that
storage for digitized speech would have been very expensive back then, I'd
be interested in any references you could provide for speech recognition
way back in the 1950's.