VOICE ACTUATED/PHONETIC RECOGNITION MICROCOMPUTER INPUT DEVICE

UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY WHICH EXISTS IN-HOUSE, WOODSIDE DESIGN ASSOCIATES, INC. (WDA) WILL COMBINE SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGIES INTO A COMPACT DATA INPUT DEVICE CAPABLE OF BEING MOUNTEDON A HARD HAT OR INTO A HAND-HELD UNIT. THIS TECHNOLOGY, WHICH HAS BEEN TESTED BY AN INDEPENDENT LAB UNDER A DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT FROM MCDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION, CONSISTENTLY WITHSTANDS A O DB SIGNALTO-NOISE RATIO. NOT RELIANT UPON THE INDUSTRY STANDARD OF MARKOVIAN PATTERN MATCHING, IT WILL TOLERATE BOTH HIGH LEVEL AMBIENT NOISE AND INTERMITTENT NOISE. ADDITIONALLY, ALL BUT THE MOST SEVERE REGIONAL ACCENTS CAN BE RECOGNIZED AND FACE MASE MUFFLEING, VOCAL CHANGES DUE TO STRESS AND THE COMMON COLD WILL REMAIN TRANSPARENT. THE SYSTEM IS TRULY SPEAKER INDEPENDENT, ACCEPTS CONTINUOUS SPEECH, RESPONDS IN REAL-TIME AND, FOR THIS APPLICATION, WILL BE CAPABLE OF A 100 WORD VOCABULARY. FORMATTING TRANSLATED DATA AND RS-232 INTERFACE ARE CONSIDERED STANDARD. THE SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY WILL PROVIDE VERIFICATION WITH A REALISTIC "HUMAN" SOUNDING VOICE. WELL VERSED ...