Re: IBM just announced speech recognition: was (Re: gnome andhandicapped access..)

[bratsche dfw net]

<smirk>

Sorry, Elliot. I didn't mean any harm. But speech recognition of that
caliber would require a great deal of study before it could be attempted I
would suspect. My intent wasn't to discourage anyone from beginning to
develop a speech recognition tool, but rather to suggest that we don't
hold our breath and instead adopt IBM's until such time as there is a
promising package with a friendlier license.

Cody

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Elliot Lee wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 bratsche@dfw.net wrote:
> 
> > As nice as that would be, it's extremely wishful thinking. There's
> > almost no chance in hell that we could develop a speech package that
> > would come anywhere close to the quality of IBM's. They've been
> > developing and optimizing that thing for years and years, and
> > supposedly they have about the best speech recognition package that
> > there is.
> 
> This is the same attitude that produced emacs, gcc, Linux, and other
> software packages that compete favorably with commercial equivalents. I
> highly recommend that we all adopt this attitude as the disposition of
> choice among the (now former) free software hackers.
> 
> </sarcasm>,
> -- Elliot
> Point being not that IBM's stuff is good, but that the longer we wait to
> start creating a free version, the more "catching up" we have to do.
>