Speaking of anniversaries, yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the sound
barrier being broken in an airplane.  (Chuck Yeager, Bell X-1, Oct 14,
1947, Murock Dry Lake AKA Edwards AFB.  He did it again yesterday in an
F-15)

But speaking of sound, the last message on this thread was when I posted
about the new voice recognition packages now available.  I just received
Windows Magazine, the November issue.  The cover story is about voice
recognition.  They review several packages, some being the ones I referred
to on my note.  They range from $699 to $50. Several of them do continuous
speech, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, IBM Via Voice and others.  This will
change the user interface of computing in a few years. This was the gist of
the talk I gave to the German Users Group last month.

If the HP 3000 really continues to integrate with Windows NT, it will not
be long before you can speak to your Windows PC connected to the 3000 and
say:

"Take the full backup, send it to the Sony drive and step on it."

Or

"Retrieve the Year-to-Date sales figures in the Image database
EODB.PUB.EOSYS on system Alpha and display the top 10 customers in a bar
chart on the Color Laser in Bob's office."

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.

Nick Demos  [log in to unmask]
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