sw0y+@andrew.cmu.EDU (Stephen Wadlow) (06/18/87)
A friend of mine is in need of a voice recognition device for his PC/compatible. Can anyone out there give me info or a lead on where to find info about such a device? He has been told that IBM makes one, but we don't know of anyone who has one, nor can he find any liturature on it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance! Steve Wadlow
unicorn@pnet01.UUCP (06/20/87)
IBM did make a voice recognition board for a while, as part of their grandiose office-automation plans, but it was a big flop and finally withdrawn from market. There may actually be some out there though. Texas Instruments has a nice recognition/response board. Your friend will need to have such variables as whether this is a speaker- dependent/independent system, will allow/require training, vocabulary size, etc, before being able to properly evaluate the alternatives. The minimum buy-in on recognition is about $1k, but of course, you can spend as much as you want. Anything affordable will probably NOT recognise connected speech. If you need this, you're instantly in the $20k range...