You can tell Wirt thinks like an engineer. His explanation of voice
recognition, what's required and the pitfalls, sounds very much like the
story of the Bug Counter. (If you haven't read it, mosey on over to
AICS's site and read <http://www.aics-research.com/history2.html>.)

One of the points he makes (quite well, too, I might add) is that humans
always seem to do a better job of pattern recognition than just about
any "learning" algorithm yet devised. If the same approach Wirt used
with the Bug Counter could be applied to voice recognition, you might
have something that actually works well.

Just my .02
Patrick (not a <plug> when it's history, right? :-)
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