05-29-15 07:18 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: CW cheating

 TW> @MSGID: 
 EV> RS>   Re: Re: CW cheating
 EV> RS>   By: TOM WALKER to ED VANCE on Tue May 26 2015 08:13 am
Howdy! Tom,
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 TW> Back in the late 80's whan I was working i nhe engineering
 TW> department of the local VA facility the Anesteshology Research
 TW> group were trying to adapt speech recognition for logging
 TW> madication administration. It never worked out,
 TW> the probem is that ones speech had to be totaly consistant. Get
 TW> a cold and you had to re-train the program. Have a tremor in
 TW> the voice, Forget it.
 TW> Sure it works for simple game playing commanda but for real
 TW> transcription of dictation it is a different story.

One year I went to a "Engineers Day" exibit.

In one of the classrooms they had a mike connected to a computer that
was running a program that displayed on a monitor what someone said
into the mike.

It passed my test when I said the alphabet backwards in the mike.

That happened long before my friend tried training the Dragon software
on his Windows 9x pc.
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I have no idea what computer the Engineering School was using, most
likely it was running a share on a main frame at the school.

I said this because in another room there was a teletype terminal set
up to show how students used a computer at that school.

I'm sure that the pc my friend used in the 1990's probably would look
like a tinker toy compared to the main frame at the school many years
earlier.
73

... MONEY TALKS ...   but all mine ever says is GOODBYE!
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