Nick,  there are three (3) packages available which do a very good job of
continuous speech recognition.  They are also very inexpensive.  The first
one is from Dragon, naturally speaking.  This one is $299.  The other two
are from IBM, Simply Speaking and another one.  These are $99.

I have heard good things about Dragon and IBM's Simply Speaking.  I have
not had a chance to try either of them out, but I intend on doing so very
shortly.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Nick Demos [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, October 03, 1997 9:41 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Off-topic: 40th anniversary of Sputnik

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> From: Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>

> A lot snipped

> Similarly, the rise of computers, high-speed transportation, and
> instantaneous world-wide communications that followed on after Sputnik --
and
> most especially, now the Internet -- have, or are now in the process of,
> transforming the world in a manner that will make it increasingly more
> difficult to align the world into camps that wage global war on
themselves
> ever again.
>
unh unh, the Internet.  Let's see we went from the distance a voice
could carry, to smoke signals, ,to mail, to the telegraph,
to telegrams (keyed), to telephone, and now back to keying !
 Thats progress? (: ;)

Nick -can't wait until voice recognition will be good enough
      and cheap enough.

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