BONQC@CUNYVM (02/07/90)
I just got a NeXT (Base developer) computer and am interested in configurating the machine with speech recognition capability. I would greatly appreciated if anyone can direct me to any useful infor. about speech recognition package for NeXT. Please send the infor. directly to my account. Many thanks in advance!! Bon K. Sy Queens College/CUNY bonqc@cunyvm.bitnet Relay-Version: Version 1.7 PSU-NETNEWS 5/20/88; site MAINE.BITNET Posting-Version: Version 1.7 PSU-NETNEWS 5/20/88; site MAINE.BITNET Path: cunyvm!maine.bitnet!walt From: Walter G Horbert <WALT@MAINE.BITNET> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Trouble with xgif, binaries anyone?? Message-ID: <WALT.90037143456@MAINE.BITNET> Date: Tuesday, 6 Feb 1990 14:34:56 EST References: <1498@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <1436@awdprime.UUCP> Distribution: na From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2113674) > form; however, xgif has been made largely obsolete by the xloadimage > program now in the contrib section of the X11R4 distribution. > xloadimage compiles/works fine with X11R3, as well. I am posting > rather than mailing this because our newsfeed seems a whole heck of a > lot more reliable than our mailer, and to make the suggestion that > everyone switches to xloadimage. > > Ron Except, that as far as I can tell, XLOADIMAGE does not support GIF format files... I am not inclined to convert them all. Any help, Ron? > +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ > +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ > + Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + > + outside of IBM @cs.utexas.edu:ibmaus!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron + > + last resort woan@peyote.cactus.org + Walter G. Horbert (Walt@Maine.Bitnet) University of Maine System Computing And Data Processing Services Orono, Maine 04469
rca@brunix.cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (02/08/90)
I would like to see the answer to the question about speech recog. too. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@cogsci.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood) (02/08/90)
Our NeXT rep gave us a speech recognition demonstration last year. I think it came from MIT (or CMU? I forgot). They said it was not ready to be released yet, but soon.... (that was last year!). It was a neat demo. He said a large number into the microphone (it was only set up do do numbers), and a couple of minutes later, it showed up in a little window. Anybody else seen this one? Robert Hood -- California State University: Sacramento (916) 278-7402 INTERNET: hoodr@csus.edu <-- NeXT mail too! BITNET: hoodr@CALSTATE UUCP: ...!ucdavis!csusac!hoodr
guerra@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Frank M. Guerra) (02/08/90)
In article <1990Feb7.200448.1344@csusac.csus.edu> hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood) writes:
Our NeXT rep gave us a speech recognition demonstration last year.
I think it came from MIT (or CMU? I forgot). They said it was not ready
to be released yet, but soon.... (that was last year!). It was a neat
demo. He said a large number into the microphone (it was only set up
do do numbers), and a couple of minutes later, it showed up in a little
window. Anybody else seen this one?
Yes. The program is called Sphinx and it comes from CMU. I don't know anything
about it other than that I have seen it in action as well. Our NeXT rep himself
was unable to say whether the App would be made available to the public anytime
soon. It was kinda impressive in that it didn't need to be "taught" to
recognize a particular person's voice.
Frank
guerra@lll-crg.llnl.govrhp@INEL.GOV (Robert Powell) (02/09/90)
Several people have requested this info now, here's what I know: - People at Carnegie-Mellon University have ported their SPHINX speech- recognition package over to the NeXT compter. This is what the one person who saw the demo was actually seeing. It can have a vocabulary of ~1000 words, and recognizes continuous, speaker-independent speech with better than 96% accuracy. It sounds nice, we're trying to get it for our NeXT. Our regional NeXT rep said he could give us a copy, but it's at least 5 months old. I am getting my info from the NeXT Academic Project Directory, Fall 1989. It lists one of the primary SPHINX researchers as the CMU contact: Kai-Fu Lee Computer Research Scientist Carnegie-Mellon University Address: Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburg, PA 15213 Electronic-Mail Address: kai-fu.lee@speech2.cs.cmu.edu) Before flooding Mr. Lee with mail, I suggest you read a paper, of which he was a co-author: "An Overview of the SPHINX Speech Recognition System" by Kai-Fu Lee, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, and Raj Reddy The paper was published in the "IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing", Vol. 38, No. 1, January 1990. - One of the reasons we purchased our NeXTs was to do speech recognition. Currently we are learning IB and Objective-C. We have some neural-network speech recognition code which we developed on an HP-9000 system, which we may port over to the NeXT. - An unrelated side-note: I recently asked our regional NeXT rep when Write Now would have underlining, and here's what he told me (he heard this word-of-mouth at NeXT, so it's not guaranteed to be 100% factual, though it sounds plausible to me): The author of Write Now considers underlining to be the grade- school equivalent of italics. So since the word-processor has italics, there is no reason to support underlining. Could be, since it seems to me a relatively simple addition. It would be nice to have it optional, rather than having italics forced down our throats. Truthfully, though, I only missed underlining at first. Now I'm used to using italics everywhere. They look nice when printed, and I find it interesting that none of the font panels support underlining, except in FrameMaker. Bob - - ------======###### The NeXT is a Mac on steroids #######======------ - - Bob Powell Idaho National Engineering Laboratory P.O. Box 1625 Internet: rhp@inel.gov M.S. 1206 Phone: (208) 526-8107 Idaho Falls, ID 83415
dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly) (02/10/90)
In article <348@egg-idINEL.GOV> rhp@INEL.GOV (Robert Powell) writes: >... >- An unrelated side-note: I recently asked our regional NeXT rep when > Write Now would have underlining, and here's what he told me (he heard > this word-of-mouth at NeXT, so it's not guaranteed to be 100% factual, > though it sounds plausible to me): > The author of Write Now considers underlining to be the grade- > school equivalent of italics. So since the word-processor has > italics, there is no reason to support underlining. >... I remember being told sometime ago that underlining was invented to get around the problem of typewriters which couldn't handle having both plain and italicized (oblique) versions of a typeface. Typists used underlined words to indicate what would be italicized words in typeset documents. But now that we don't have this limitation on our printers, there's really no need to use it unless some graphic effect is to be achieved, I guess. Eric Ly
cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) (02/13/90)
In article <28325@brunix.UUCP> rca@brunix.cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >I would like to see the answer to the question about speech recog. too. >Ronald >unreasonable man." - Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@cogsci.bitnet >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please add my name to the interested group of people. Chun -- |I want Rocket Chip 10 MHz, Z-Ram Ultra II, UniDisk 3.5 | cyliao@wam.umd.edu | |I want my own NeXT, 50MHz 68040, 64Mb RAM, 660Mb SCSI, | Chun Yao Liao | | NeXT laser printer, net connection. | Accepting Donations!| /* If (my_.signature =~ yours) coincidence = true; else ignore_this = true; */