Author: Roberto Gilmozzi
Date: 07:59:25 07/04/01
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On July 02, 2001 at 20:13:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 02, 2001 at 15:38:17, Roberto Gilmozzi wrote: > >>I came across a mention to a program called HEARSAY which was developed at CMU >>in the late 60's or early 70's i believe, and was a speech recognizing program >>that played chess. [A probably apocryphal story claims that during the final >>testing by someone from the funding agency, while the microphone was being >>connected this guy cleared his throat, which the program promptly translated as >>'pawn to king four'.] >> >>Any information on the program and of its relation, if any, to subsequent ones >>would be appreciated. Thanks >> >>Roberto > > >Sorry.. no info here. Although most 60's-era voice recognition programs were >a joke at best and a travesty at worst. :) thanks anyway... the interesting part of the mention was actually the point that thay had used chess "knowledge" as a way to interpret the voice input, and my curiosity was about that. From a quick web search, i found several mentions of a HEARSAY-II program in the mid-70' that might (!) have been better at speech recognition, but none to the first version, chess savvy or otherwise.
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