Re: Speech Input/Output on Apple II

[jboothbee@gmail.com]

>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.

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.