New subject: Help bootting this PDP-11/44

29 Oct 1998

I would say it's probably more than 1%...but, is anyone here
familiar with sound waves, and what human speech looks like waveform
wise?

...

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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