Re: Voice Recognition Software...

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>]

David Downing wrote:
>at least not one that lets everyone speak purely naturally
> -- because there are just too many variations in the way a given word or
> phrase can be uttered.  Someone with one regional dialect will say it
> using a whole different set of phonemes than someone with another
> regional dialect -- and the same person will say the same word or phrase
> differently, depending on their mood.  Fortunately, human beings have
> this thing called "categorical perception" that lets us ignore all the
> variations, but can you program that into a computer?


Training: context recognition:
BTW: How fast and how accurate do yu type?
-- 
Peter

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longer than any hour. That's relativity,"
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