Mike Markley says-
I'd be curious to see how they are going to do voice recognition on random conversations. Unless I am very sadly out of date you need to teach the pattern matcher individual voices.
I remember a story from a conference in the sixties where someone wanted to prove the point that it's much easier to make a recognizer for all voices if you're only looking for a certain word. So he built a "watermelon" box. He sits this up on the podium with him and gives his talk, which naturally at some point gets to... "...a single word, for instance 'watermelon.'" *beep!* Then later there's a Q&A period, of course... A: Please step up to the microphone... Q: You mean all this thing does is recognize the word "watermelon," *beep!* and that it can recognize the word "watermelon" *beep!* no matter who says it? A: That's right, it's an any-speaker, "watermelon" *beep!* recognizer. Q2: Why the word... "watermelon" *beep!* exactly? ... -fnerd *BZZZT! AAAAARRRRROOOOGAH!* quote me - - cryptocosmology- sufficiently advanced communication is indistinguishable from noise - god is in the least significant bits -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a aKxB8nktcBAeQHabQP/d7yhWgpGZBIoIqII8cY9nG55HYHgvt3niQCVAgUBLMs3K ui6XaCZmKH68fOWYYySKAzPkXyfYKnOlzsIjp2tPEot1Q5A3/n54PBKrUDN9tHVz 3Ch466q9EKUuDulTU6OLsilzmRvQJn0EJhzd4pht6hSnC1R3seYNhUYhoJViCcCG sRjLQs4iVVM= =9wqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----