[comp.sys.mac] Time to Speech recognition

pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (01/08/89)

 >>>Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10
 >>>years away, can it?
 >>>-Peter Schachte
 
 >bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
 >> As far as I can tell it's only been 5 or 10 years away for the past
 >> decade or so, I'd imagine that figure is still correct.
 
 diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) writes:
 >Well, in 1956, in an advertisement on the back cover of Scientific
 >American, speech recognition equipment was only 4 years away.
 
 And 1989 - (1956 + 4) = *29* years.  Now we're down to only 5 or 10.
 Say, that's progress!
 
	;-D on  ( My fish does speech recognition )  Pardo
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