Re: Observation about group

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

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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