ajb@cs.brown.edu (04/08/89)
comp.sys.next NeXT Digest Volume 1 Issue 3 Compiled at Brown University from the Bitnet NeXT-L List Today's Subjects: Next Office Info on NEXT NeXT and TeX voice recognition software voice recognition software Re: Vol 1 Issue 46 -- NeXT-L Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 11:40:33 EDT From: Faustino Cantu Botello <PL191309@TECMTYVM> Subject: Next Office I'm interested in some information about the Next-L but i would like to write to the central office of Next Corporation, can somebody tell me the adress and phone number of the offices? Thank you Facabo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 16:41:00 N From: FISICA@ASTRPD.INFN.IT Subject: Info on NEXT Dear Sir/Madam, an american friend of mine gave me your address to get infos about the NEXT computer. This message comes from Italy. Several italian scientific institutioins are quite interesting in getting a NEXT machine. In particular, I am the vice-director of the Astrophysics Sector of the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste; the School is also interested in computing and in new machines (this because I read that the NEXT will be sold only to scientific institutions). I would be very gratefull if you could let me have any info, in particular how to buy a NEXT. All we know here is what appeared in an isuue of Byte of few months ago. Thanks for help/info. Max Calvani SISSA-ISAS Strada Costiera 11 34014 Miramare (Trieste) - Italy bitnet: fisica%astrpd.infn.it@icineca 2.bitnet SPAN: 39003::fisica -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 17:44:00 N From: FISICA@ASTRPD.INFN.IT Subject: NeXT and TeX In issue 43 of NeXT-l several people were complaining about TeX fonts to be used with NeXT. Now, an enhancement to TeX (well, actually to Latex) has been done by Mario Wolczko, Dept. Computer Science, The University, Manchester M13 9PL,UK. It is called Pslatex. It may be obtained for free by the tex archive at: archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. Just send the following two-lines message: PATH Your-e-mail-return-address SEND LATEX-STYLE PSLATEX.SHAR For those who have access to SPAN, it may also be copied from: 39003::dua0:[tex.latex-style]pslatex.shar (where another TeX archive is kept). Pslatex uses, when available, resident Postscript fonts. When not (like for math symbols) it uses ordinary tex fonts. Max Calvani (from Italy, hoping to succeed in getting a Next over here!) bitnet: fisica%astrpd.infn.it@icineca2.bitnet SPAN : 39003::fisica --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 14:44:19 CST From: HAUSAM@UIUCVMD Subject: voice recognition software Does anyone know specific information about voice recognition software for the NeXT and its availability? I had heard from somewhere that software had been developed for this application, I believe making use of the DSP processor. I think this was supposed to have been developed at Carnegie Mellon University. I would appreciate receiving any information about this that anyone might have, either via the list or by direct email. Thanks. Robert Hausam College of Medicine University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 11:38:55 EST From: John Neubert <U1DF1@WVNVM> Subject: voice recognition software In-Reply-To: Message of 03/07/89 at 14:44:19 from HAUSAM@UIUCVMD I heard the same "rumor" when the NeXT was first announced. CMU does have a history of voice (speech) recognition research (under Dr. Raj Reddy and others). I have heard nothing about the rumor for months. If you are aware of the promises of voice recognition since the early 1970s (Scope Electronics, Threshold Technology, Heuristics, Centigram, Dialog -- all of whom are belly up now -- except Centigram, which now does voice mail type applications) you must realize that the promise has still not been realized -- sort of the way AI that would do just about anything was predicted in the 1960s to be only 5 - 10 years away by the small group of "clergy" then at MIT. Don't get me wrong, I believe strongly that both will eventually happen; it's just a lot more complicated than the researchers (most) wish to admit. I don't know about CMU's current research -- haven't been really delving deeply into the field since 1981. However, I see you are in the medical field. You may be aware of the semi-voice recognition product that allows doctors to communicate prescriptions, etc, by voice (assuming that a doctor's voice is clearer than his/her writing ;-) ). Can't remember who developed the product. Read in some journal that it's now in some hospitals. If you seek products that perhaps help in such as speech pathology, try a small company in Denton, TX, called Scott Instruments. They have been used a number of places for such. Their founder, Brian Scott, was a speech researcher at UT (I think) -- unlike many other firms where the people are CS or EE types. Scott supposedly has a connected speech technology product. There is a magazine, called "Speech" I think, and a yearly conference put on by the publishers of the journal. Kurzweil promised a voice recognition typewriter last year or the year before. It probably got them a lot of funding and PR, but as far as I know nothing resulted. Soooo, believe it when you see (or hear) it. Good luck. John Neubert u1df1@wvnvm (u1df1@wvnvm.wvnet.edu) Coordinator, Planning & Analysis WVNET (West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing) Morgantown, WV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 10:18:09 EDT From: Norbert Mueller <K360171@AEARN> Subject: Re: Vol 1 Issue 46 -- NeXT-L Digest In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 17 Mar 89 21:48:49 EST from <ATUL@BROWNVM> Rumours say some NeXTs will be available in Europe in July. For universities only and at a price 2.5 times the U.S. price and unsupported. Sorry that's all I know as it was discussed on a recent Macintosh user's meeting - so far I do not know who's distributing it. Norbert Mueller Institute of Chemistry Johannes Kepler University A-4040 LINZ AUSTRIA BABYL OPTIONS: Version: 5 Labels: Note: This is the header of an rmail file. Note: If you are seeing it in rmail, Note: it means the file has no messages in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of NeXT Digest --