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Re: Speech Input/Output on Apple II
jboothbee@gmail.com wrote:
Only the Heuristics and Scott cards did better, because
they were computers-on-a-card, with well-honed algorithms
matched to their capabilities--and even they were primitive
by today's standards.
In 1999 when I was playing with the Covox Voice master,
I found the recognition to be better than any software I could
download for the PC. Better than the built in recognition
of the Mac.
That's surprising, since the Voice Master only has a few filter
bands to work with, and relatively primitive software.
I've never found any of them good enough to make me want to
do real comparisons.
in 2002 I tried Windows XP built in speech recognition. After
reading the training document, I tried speaking a few simple
sentences. It would output garbage, similar to "AI" programs
"poetry".
I would say "it is a great day today. I need to go to the
store"
it would type "red dogs had left today. Exceed not any more"
I found it interesting that it would misinterpret almost every
word I would speak individually or in sentences, except for:
"bill gates"
"microsoft"
"windows"
and I am not kidding or exaggerating. The program would
get those 3 words 99 percent of the time. Any other word
would be interpreted correctly approximately 10 percent.
I have to ask if you said, "it---is---a---great---day---", etc.,
because natural utterances are much too "connected" and have too
much contextual influence for today's recognizers to do a good
job.
-michael
Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
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