NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/22141

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Subject: Re: Alternatives to DecVoice
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Date: 27 Jan 93 14:06:39 GMT
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There have appeared some boards for Amiga machines recently that
do voice recognition/commands. Even, there's a PD application that
recognizes simple commands using a voice digitizer, just runs on
a stock amiga with a digitizer (which costs maybe $60). Amigas are
inexpensive enough they might be cheaper than a decvoice; there
are decnet, novell, and appletalk (and the obligatory slip based
ka9q tcp/ip) for Amiga to network them to your vaxen...extra cost
for most of these, unfortunately.
   AmigaDos has an interesting software construct called the
speak: device by the way...just dump normal ASCII to it, and it
emits it in spoken English, doing a usually pretty decent job.
This is stock with every Amiga.

   On an unrelated matter: I too would like more responses of
(local) use of the DEL command to delete postings one dislikes
rather than flames about them. Especially abusive flames. The flames
like yesterday's unix one (I laughed for 20 minutes!) are welcome,
and some creative cursing ("illegitimate son of a maggot!") would
occasionally be also. Long flame wars "should" be over "net religious"
issues, though, not attacks on bumbling questions or questioners. ;-)
Glenn
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