[Ti] accents and Apple's Speech Recogntion

[Trevor J. Hutley]

At 05:02 +1000 30-4-2003, Erika wrote:
>Has anyone with anything other than one of the North American 
>accents ever grappled
>with Apple's Speech Recognition?

The "accent" issue has always been there.  When the MacInTalk first 
came out (in the days when every colleague had a Mac) it was quickly 
established that only the American guys were recognized.
But we soon picked up enough of the accent, to ask "Tell me a joke" 
and get a response from the Mac.

IBM ViaVoice is a much more sophisticated speech recognition 
technology, in that it has a learning component, that sort of 
recognises your voice, once you have trained it by reading out loud 
the entire "The History of the English Speaking People" or some such 
tome.

I am sure that Apple will in the future enhance their speech 
recognition technology to handle different voices, different acents, 
and enable more voice control of the Mac.

I am looking forward to the day when telephone particularly and voice 
in general is integrated in the OS.

regards,  Trevor