pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (01/08/89)
>>>Good speech recognition hardware can't be more than 5 or 10 >>>years away, can it? >>>-Peter Schachte >bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes: >> As far as I can tell it's only been 5 or 10 years away for the past >> decade or so, I'd imagine that figure is still correct. diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) writes: >Well, in 1956, in an advertisement on the back cover of Scientific >American, speech recognition equipment was only 4 years away. And 1989 - (1956 + 4) = *29* years. Now we're down to only 5 or 10. Say, that's progress! ;-D on ( My fish does speech recognition ) Pardo -- pardo@cs.washington.edu {rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!pardo