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Article #36098Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac??
From: Ellen Keyne Seebacher
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1989 19:36
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1989 19:36
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In article <932@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: > > I could >select a quotation and say "quote this." A good voice-operated word >processor would know that periods and commas (usually) go inside quotes, >but colons (usually) go outside, and other such trivia. It should also >know that when you put a quotation inside another quotation, you use >single quotes for the inner quotation. And would it also know that if the speaker is British (and I presume, but am not sure, Canadian or Australian), the main quotation should use single quotes and the inner quotation double quotes? Or that if the Briton says 'tyre,' she means just that and not "tire"? Would you simply have a Dialect A/Dialect B/Dialect Z switch, or is something more complex needed? -- Ellen Keyne Seebacher University of Chicago Computing Orgzns. see1@tank.uchicago.edu staff.ellen@chip.uchicago.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!shamash!tank!see1 From: see1@tank.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng,sci.lang Subject: Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac?? Keywords: Voice Recognition, Voice Synthesis, Speech, Voice Response Message-ID: <1487@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 19 Jan 89 19:36:14 GMT References: <2972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <1029@ditsyda.oz> <434@eutrc3.UUCP> <927@quintus.UUCP> <912@scubed.UUCP> <932@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: see1@tank.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 19