voice recognition

[Russell Valentino]

Dear Colleagues,

Please respond to Mr. Lacey directly if you have experience with Russian
voice recognition software and would like to share it with him.

Thank you.
--------------- Text of forwarded message ---------------
>From: "tom lacey" <tjllacey at hotmail.com>
>To: russell-valentino at uiowa.edu
>Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 12:29:08 -0500
>
>I am thinking of buying a voice recognition/text translation computer for
>use in Russia and would like to know how useful it is.
>
>It is made in the U.S. by a company called Ectaco.  It looks like a laptop
>and has Russian-English voice recognition capability and English-Russian
>text translation capability.  You speak Russian to it and it translates
>into English.  But you have to enter English as text for translation to
>text.  At least this is my understanding.
>
>The thing costs $500 so I am trying to get some input about how well it
>works before I spend the money.
>
>Tom Lacey

Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Co-chair, Program in Russian
Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Tel. (319) 353-2193
Fax (319) 353-2524

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