05-29-15 07:18 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: CW cheating   
      
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    EV> RS>   Re: Re: CW cheating   
    EV> RS>   By: TOM WALKER to ED VANCE on Tue May 26 2015 08:13 am   
   Howdy! Tom,   
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    TW> Back in the late 80's whan I was working i nhe engineering   
    TW> department of the local VA facility the Anesteshology Research   
    TW> group were trying to adapt speech recognition for logging   
    TW> madication administration. It never worked out,   
    TW> the probem is that ones speech had to be totaly consistant. Get   
    TW> a cold and you had to re-train the program. Have a tremor in   
    TW> the voice, Forget it.   
    TW> Sure it works for simple game playing commanda but for real   
    TW> transcription of dictation it is a different story.   
      
   One year I went to a "Engineers Day" exibit.   
      
   In one of the classrooms they had a mike connected to a computer that   
   was running a program that displayed on a monitor what someone said   
   into the mike.   
      
   It passed my test when I said the alphabet backwards in the mike.   
      
   That happened long before my friend tried training the Dragon software   
   on his Windows 9x pc.   
   .   
   I have no idea what computer the Engineering School was using, most   
   likely it was running a share on a main frame at the school.   
      
   I said this because in another room there was a teletype terminal set   
   up to show how students used a computer at that school.   
      
   I'm sure that the pc my friend used in the 1990's probably would look   
   like a tinker toy compared to the main frame at the school many years   
   earlier.   
   73   
      
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