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Re: StrongARM based Wearable with Speech interface

From: (Eric LaForest)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 08:56:59 -0500 (EST)

>Hello All-
>
>I'm brand new to this list, as I've been working on a wearable machine 
>for all of two weeks.  I was walking down the street one day and had an 
>epiphany about the missing link between current PDAs and the PDAs of the 
>future.  So, long story short, I am not working on a type of Speech 
>interface.  
>
>Due to OS availibility and performance issues, I'm looking at going with 
>a modified Netwinder, running Linux.  But I have one question:  Does 

Good choice! ;)
(I'm using one as such)

>speech recognition require a lot of FP math?  I would presume it does (I 
>worked on a speech recognizer about 10 years ago and it was all FP) but 
>the Intel technical site for the StrongARM calls it "ideal for 
>performance critical applications such as... voice recognition."

Well....that sentence is nothing but marketese....but it is possible, it
seems, to do speech recognition in integer math.  Motorola has I hear a
very tiny speech recog engine for the ARM.

>Anyway, Hello to everyone...
>
>Jay Prince

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