[MV] Re: Fwd: Voice Activation

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On Aug 14, 2005, at 03:33, Michael Gherrity wrote:


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> On Aug 13, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Chuck Rogers wrote:
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>> Steph, I know how badly you want French - and we want to provide  
>> it just as badly. But until we find a workaround for our current  
>> technical issues, it just ain't gonna happen.
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> Perhaps an open source solution is necessary. That way we will not  
> be stuck with whatever Philipps seems to think is economically  
> feasible. There is some work that has been done by Carnegie Melon  
> University in this area. What do people think about this?
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Well, that's actually kind of what I had in mind when I was talking  
about "third-party" development of the language pack/speech engine.  
Problem is that it requires Philips to release their source code --  
not sure there is a chance they would ever do that.

Steph