Re: Cobol books & experiences

Back in the 80's I was asked to look into voice recognition for the Dental
Health section of the local Health Department. They wanted the dentists to
speak the results of dental exams (a series of number and letter codes) into
a PC based dental statistics system I had written for them. This would have
freed up the dental technicians who were keying the data in as the dentist
worked, permitting them to serve more patients with the same staff. We
looked at several PC based systems up to about $1,200, but they simply were
not up to the task. They were *very* picky. You could 'train' the software
to recognize one person's voice, which took from 30-90 minutes, and it would
work fairly well for that one person. But the next day, or after lunch, or
even after a glass of water, it wouldn't work correctly. And we only needed
it to recognize about 8-10 letters, the numeric digits 0-9, and about five
command words.
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Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
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"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> (I am experimenting with voice input, which I believe
>>>> will be the "next thing".
>
> I first experienced it in 1973 when it took the full power of a Cyber 70
> series (at that time one of the world's most powerful computers).
>
> When I said "next thing" I was talking in terms of public awareness and
> cyber "fashion", not the technology itself.
>
>>> It has been 'the next thing' for nearly 20 years. OS/2 came with voice
>>> recognition 10 years ago. In the early 80s meat works here in NZ used
>>> voice input because it was inappropriate to use a keyboard.
>>>
> I didn't know that :-) Are they still using it?
>
> I know the banks (well, Databank Systems, as it was), used the voice of
> Relda Familton when people enquired on their accounts. That was in the
> early 70s and was only for voice response, (not input), using IBM 7770
> units. NZ was one of the first places in the world to implement it.


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