| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1088.1 | | ATYISB::HILL | Don't worry, we have a cunning plan! | Tue Feb 15 1994 01:02 | 6 |
| Let's try...
"Twas brillig and the slyvie toths did gyre and gimbal in the wabe.
All mimsey were the borogroves and in the mome wrath grabe."
Strange, this fouled up in the spell checker :-(
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| 1088.2 | Maybe the spell checker was right. | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Tue Feb 15 1994 01:34 | 2 |
| I'm not surprised! It's "slithy" not "slyvie" and the mome raths
outgrabe.
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| 1088.3 | | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Feb 15 1994 09:59 | 3 |
| It's "slithy toves", not "toths".
Ann B.
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| 1088.4 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Scythe my dandelions down, sport | Tue Feb 15 1994 15:00 | 5 |
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I spent a year using bits of Jabberwocky as "pass-phrases". This 15 character
minimum length monthly change is a pest!
Chele
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| 1088.5 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Tue Feb 15 1994 18:00 | 5 |
| Hey M Monahan, I caught you! The spelling checker was right twice, you
deleted your first version of .2 and corrected the spelling of "slithy"!
Cheater!
-- Norman Diamond
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| 1088.6 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Tue Feb 15 1994 23:04 | 5 |
| OK, I'll admit I changed it, but I didn't use any form of spelling
checker - just went off to the WC, and while pondering there remembered
what I had done wrong.
Dave
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| 1088.7 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Tue Feb 15 1994 23:37 | 7 |
| Hmm, such a boring, straight response in .6. Of course, it would be
quite some spell checker that would catch non-words like "slithy" ...
and it would be quite some speech recognizer that would catch non-words
like "slithy" ... OK, now we can wonder what the speech recognizer
would come up with in the WC :-)
-- Norman Diamond
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| 1088.8 | | SMURF::BINDER | Omnia tibi dicta non crede | Wed Feb 16 1994 06:47 | 25 |
| This IBM speech recognizer isn't the first on the market, certainly. A
colleague in my group uses a PeeCee application called Dragon Dictate.
And in fact IBM does have a technology-sharing agreement with Dragon; I
wonder how much of this new product is Dragon's technology.
Dragon is rather more epxensive; its original version cost about $1500,
and the current model is still pricey. It's a combined hardware/
software product, using a special audio input card. The IBM unit's
price does seem attractive.
Dragon does not have the kind of vocabulary limitation that the IBM
unit seems to have, judging from the "special dictionaries" info. It
is provided with a vocabulary of about 80,000 words and can store in
the hundreds of thousands. Initial training is on the order of 20
minutes.
Speed of Dragon is easily as good as IBM's. On paper. (I timed my
colleague saying a short paragraph.) In the real world, both systems
will be slower because you must constantly correct misinterpreted words
or the system will learn the erroneous versions and consider them to be
correct. My colleague says real-world speed is more on the order ot
15-25 words per minute for Dragon, and I'll bet IBM isn't any better.
Does the IBM model work with Windows? Dragon doesn't - if you run
Windows, it goes away. But it comes back when you exit from Windows.
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| 1088.9 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Wed Feb 16 1994 18:16 | 4 |
| Surely the equivalent of a spelling checker would instruct the
dictator to open the mouth wider or reposition the tongue or
just plain speak up, etc., instead of placidly accepting
corrections to misinterpretations :-)
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| 1088.10 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Thu Feb 17 1994 00:17 | 2 |
| If such a thing existed it could be valuable for teaching various
types of handicapped people.
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| 1088.11 | | DECWET::GETSINGER | We ARE the Government | Thu Feb 17 1994 09:05 | 1 |
| Didn't Henry Higgins work on this for a while?
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| 1088.12 | | BBRDGE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Fri Feb 18 1994 05:26 | 15 |
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Nope it doesn't work (well) with Windows. That was one of the
reviewer's gripes.
Regarding correction - I believe there are two ways - one is simply
editing with no feedback, the other calls up the training
sequence and prompts you through that particular difficult
word so that it is better prepared in the future either by
being tuned to the speaker or by having augmented a personal
dictionary.
Dragon seems to be a fundamental technology component in this
business. I believe that my Microsoft Sound card which provides
a voice menu command system has a Dragon chipset, although it has
extremely limited word recognition capability.
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| 1088.13 | Not much to do with JOYOFLEX, but... | SUPER::MATTHEWS | | Wed Mar 02 1994 06:55 | 16 |
| .8 >And in fact IBM does have a technology-sharing agreement with Dragon; I
.8 >wonder how much of this new product is Dragon's technology.
As I understand it, IBM is competing with itself... Personal
Dictation System is IBM's own technology. IBM also resells
DragonDictate under the name VoiceType. The audio card that
DragonDictate uses is from IBM. (And to answer the earlier question
about where Digital is with this technology, we resell DragonDictate
too.)
Further discussion probably belongs in
DSSDEV::CATMAN$DKA300:[GOHN.DRAGONDICTATE]DRAGON.NOTE --
Val
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