29 Oct
1998
29 Oct
'98
9:59 a.m.
Voice _activated_ or voice _operated_? I could easily imagine a type
writer turning on when you talk to it, but not a typewriter that can
understand speech. Though, with a housefull of tubes, it could
probably be done...
I saw a reference to a voice-activated typewriter that was patented in
1916.
(No, that is not a typo.) Unforunately the site
isn't in my bookmark
file
or if it is, the reference isn't easily
accessible.
-- Derek
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29 Oct
29 Oct
11:27 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
Voice _activated_ or voice _operated_? I could easily
imagine a type
writer turning on when you talk to it, but not a typewriter that can
understand speech. Though, with a housefull of tubes, it could
probably be done...
How about a houseful of tubes coupled with a Z-80 with 128 bit address space?
If anybody here can afford to fully populate that address space, I'd like to
discuss employment, ...
Some of the very early voice recognition typewriters operated with their
own phoneme based alphabets, rather than producing English text.
Even the task of parsing the input stream to separate the words from each
other has remained an elusive goal. That is a loarge part of why the
current "dictation" systems remain unsuitable for transcription, closed
captioning, aids for the deaf, etc. Even now, the best systems available
require intense interaction between the speaker and the program.
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366
Berkeley, CA 94710-2219
11:54 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Even the task of parsing the input stream to separate
the words from each
other has remained an elusive goal. That is a loarge part of why the
current "dictation" systems remain unsuitable for transcription, closed
captioning, aids for the deaf, etc. Even now, the best systems available
require intense interaction between the speaker and the program.
Yup, it's a *very* difficult problem. Basically, there's not a
straight-forward mapping between sound waves and what we hear. Even once
you do all of the relatively simple signal processing and word
recognition, you're left with the basically impossible task of context
analysis (which requires almost all of our brain to get right, and we
still blow it about 1% of the time).
-- Doug
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