Re: Observation about group

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

I have an almost complete run of Byte - I'll see if I can find it.

Roy

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:21:47 -0600, Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I've often wondered why a computer couldn't have a speech recognition card that
> >was in essence a second computer dedicated solely to interpreting the speech. IF
> >the total resources of, say, a pentium 100 were devoted to speech recognition,
> >could it do the job? And then send the code to the OS of the host computer to
> >perform the task commanded?
>
> That's exactly how the speech recognition card that Steve Circia
> designed and published in Byte magazine in his column Circia's Circuit
> Cellar worked.  I've always wanted to track down that article and
> build one of those cards and maybe expand on it.  It is a very simple
> design in that you simply record yourself saying something and it
> compares whatever it hears with what it has recorded.  It could record
> up to 64 samples and when it found a match it would send a single
> character or string to the Apple II so you could say catalog and it
> would send the text "CATALOG" followed by carriage return to the Apple
> II.
>
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