saal@sfsup.UUCP (S.Saal) (01/30/88)
I don't know if speech recognition is still considered a part of AI, but I thought these two groups would be the most appropriate for this question. One of the difficulties of speech recognition is to have the computer understand whether the statement "makes sense." this is something (most) humans do automatically. When the sentence doesn't make sense we slow down our assimilation rate or, if necessary, ask the speaker to repeat. computers can't/don't do that. The classic example is: "It's hard to wreck a nice beach." vs "Its hard to recognize speech." (If you don't see the difficulty, say each one out loud.) What I am looking for is more examples of these sentence pairs. Here is another example - one that a human listener would be able to discern easily, though I have my doubts about the computer. "She bought her son dresses for $5." vs "She bought her sundresses for $5." Please send all sentence pairs to me directly (via email) instead of posting them. rec.humor folks, no need to re-start the discussion on misunderstood song lyrics. Thanks. -- Sam Saal ..!attunix!saal It's a retelling of the campaigns of Julius Ceasar, with the addition of aircraft. ... I call it "Veni, Vidi, Vici Through Air Power." from "God Save the Mark"