On 19/05/2011 14:25, Francois Labreque wrote:

> [snip]
>> Astonishingly, the machine managed to correctly parse my speech. (I
>> didn't think about this at the time, but the voice is recorded rather
>> than synthesized, so they must have recordings for the exact words I
>> uttered.)
>
> I work for a very large IT company that does research on language
> recognition, amongst other things. We were all asked a few years ago to
> spend 15 minutes reciting a long list of words into a voice-mail box.
> This was then used to help their software filter out dialects, accents,
> barytones from sopranos, etc...

I actually meant that the reply from the machine is a recorded voice 
rather than a speech synthesizer, so when it says stuff back to me, it 
must have recordings of those words to play.

But yes, I'm sure it takes a long time to tune the speech recognition 
part with different voices and so forth.

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