gnu@hoptoad.UUCP (03/14/87)
A recent article in Newsbytes Japan mentions:
Toshiba's Voice Recognition LSI -- Toshiba (Tokyo) has developed
a powerful LSI for recognizing human speech. This new product
recognizes a variety of spoken sounds with 95% accuracy.
Toshiba plans to use this LSI for a voice input system for its
word processors.
I am interested in building a voice control system for my house, which
will be fully wired for sound. Does anyone have further information
about this chip (e.g. press releases, other mentions in the press,
papers at conferences, or actual product numbers and specs)?
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John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu
Love your country but never trust its government.
-- from a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvaniamichaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (Michael Maxwell) (03/16/87)
In article <1895@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >A recent article in Newsbytes Japan mentions: > > Toshiba's Voice Recognition LSI -- Toshiba (Tokyo) has developed > a powerful LSI for recognizing human speech. This new product > recognizes a variety of spoken sounds with 95% accuracy. > Toshiba plans to use this LSI for a voice input system for its > word processors. This is a rather meaningless statement, even for a press release. How many sounds? What kind of sounds (individual phones (~=letters), words, phrases, whistles etc.)? If it's talking about speech sounds (as opposed to any sounds the human vocal tract can make), what is the size of the vocabulary one can build with it? Do words have to be separated by silence? Does it work in real time? Is it even trainable? (I can imagine having to talk to my computer with a Japanese accent :-) If anyone knows more about this... There are lots of voice recognition boards out there. Most are fairly primitive, which is part of the reason we haven't them used more. Need I say that my employer doesn't necessarily share my opinion? -- Mike Maxwell Boeing Advanced Technology Center arpa: michaelm@boeing.com uucp: uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!michaelm