Re: Tape images for the Apple II anyone?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> I want a copy of a program released on tape:
>
> Apple Lis'ner by Bob Bishop
>
> loaded from tape, then you plug a microphone into the cassette port....
>
> the program will recognize speech that is entered through the
> microphone.

There were a few such programs.  Bob's was probably the first
commercial one.

While they are capable of a certain level of speaker-trained
recognition, they would not be confused with what we call
speech recognition today.  After all, how much can you do
with just zero crossings?

If you listen to infinitely clipped speech, you will notice that
it is non-trivial for an untrained *human* to recognize it!  ;-)

-michael

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