for some reason I seem to recall a piece of software translating/pronouncing/interpreting the word ghoti "correctly" (ie. fish) as a result of some smart ass programmer sticking it in as a special case.
anyone else remember something like this? fantastic work by the coder anyway.
depends on the degree. As a first year engineering student, I spent a number of hours looking at possible vacation placements for next summer recently, and spoke to a number of companies. It seems that I can expect up to 20 K sterling pro-rated for 3 month contracts, and with a top degree and vacation experience in relevant fields up to £30k when I graduate.
also worth mentioning is that the IT consultancies pay through the roof for grads since there is a shortage of geeks who can also have proven management and presentation/inter-personal skills.
You might think that since echelon is supposed to have speech recognition capability, they might have used the n-gram language models from that in the text monitoring system as well.
What this amounts to is that the perplexity of random word strings as you suggested would be so high above "normal" text, that they would be very easy to weed out using a language model.
I didn't make myself clear. My point was that speech reco is not commercially viable **at the moment** beacuse drivers are not available for the most recent sound cards (eg Soundblaster Live!). I am aware of Creative Labs' comments on releasing the specs etc, and hopefully they will offer proper support on non-wintel environments in the near future. It was more of a hardware support issue, rather than saying that the fantastic work on Linux sound was flawed. As you will know, it is impossible to develop good drivers without the technical details, which in many cases have not been released.
so where does the world get most of its oil from then? How much trade does the US do with Dubai, or any of the other mambers of the UAE? quite a lot is the answer.
get you facts straight: just beacuse Iraq is embargoed doesn't mean the rest of the middle east is.
have a look here to see what's going on at Gitex in Dubai. And the article here shows that US imports from the UAE were $8.9bn in 1998. That doesn't sound like a trade embargo to me.
IBM have not ported Viavoice to Linux. They have the engine binaries and an SDK available. it is not supported, and since linux sound support is so bad, even if you did manage to build a working task, and managed to get it to talk to the engine, and managed to make a front end, you'd be lucky to get it working on anything apart from a particular spec of machine. Typing is, however, still faster.
responses: 1) they do at the IBM Hursley research labs in the UK 2)I did see a mildly funny cartoon once. (but you're right) 3)Lou Gerstner has cut a lot of the bureaucracy. However a UK employee still has to phone Belgium to request that a guy in the office upstairs give him a replacement keyboard. 4) tee hee. Inside IBM Lotus Notes is used for everything. Lotusscript is almost perfect for macro virii since it has a on_open_mail event. The default security settings will execute arbitary code without asking you first when you open your mailbox. asking for trouble. 5)the new ads have cool music "dum. dum dum dum dum...etc" 6) pick a story. you say they're too grey and then say they're trying to be too young. 7) indeed. 8) plenty of Dilbert in big blue
precisely. I had 6 PC300PL/GLs last year, and they held NT4 up longer than anything else. great components and they didn't die when the A/C did (unlike the gateway2K) In fact the only thing better was an RS6000 which crashed in June for the first time since 1995.
The point of the design was to make the machine look good for the home PC market, and let's face it, it did look cool. They were aiming the machine at trendy newbies who have no intention of ever running a proper OS on their slick new PC.
but you haven't really contributed anything at all have you. Maybe if you read the sources then you might have something interesting to say instead of just telling ppl that they are wrong without any evidence.
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anyone else remember something like this? fantastic work by the coder anyway.
However the IBM flatscreens do kick most others out of the water.
Incidentally, apple don't make their screens: they rebadge them. IBM make theirs in Greenock, Scotland. (I think)
also worth mentioning is that the IT consultancies pay through the roof for grads since there is a shortage of geeks who can also have proven management and presentation/inter-personal skills.
What this amounts to is that the perplexity of random word strings as you suggested would be so high above "normal" text, that they would be very easy to weed out using a language model.
I didn't make myself clear. My point was that speech reco is not commercially viable **at the moment** beacuse drivers are not available for the most recent sound cards (eg Soundblaster Live!). I am aware of Creative Labs' comments on releasing the specs etc, and hopefully they will offer proper support on non-wintel environments in the near future. It was more of a hardware support issue, rather than saying that the fantastic work on Linux sound was flawed. As you will know, it is impossible to develop good drivers without the technical details, which in many cases have not been released.
get you facts straight: just beacuse Iraq is embargoed doesn't mean the rest of the middle east is.
have a look here to see what's going on at Gitex in Dubai. And the article here shows that US imports from the UAE were $8.9bn in 1998. That doesn't sound like a trade embargo to me.
IBM have not ported Viavoice to Linux. They have the engine binaries and an SDK available. it is not supported, and since linux sound support is so bad, even if you did manage to build a working task, and managed to get it to talk to the engine, and managed to make a front end, you'd be lucky to get it working on anything apart from a particular spec of machine. Typing is, however, still faster.
responses: 1) they do at the IBM Hursley research labs in the UK 2)I did see a mildly funny cartoon once. (but you're right) 3)Lou Gerstner has cut a lot of the bureaucracy. However a UK employee still has to phone Belgium to request that a guy in the office upstairs give him a replacement keyboard. 4) tee hee. Inside IBM Lotus Notes is used for everything. Lotusscript is almost perfect for macro virii since it has a on_open_mail event. The default security settings will execute arbitary code without asking you first when you open your mailbox. asking for trouble. 5)the new ads have cool music "dum. dum dum dum dum...etc" 6) pick a story. you say they're too grey and then say they're trying to be too young. 7) indeed. 8) plenty of Dilbert in big blue
precisely. I had 6 PC300PL/GLs last year, and they held NT4 up longer than anything else. great components and they didn't die when the A/C did (unlike the gateway2K) In fact the only thing better was an RS6000 which crashed in June for the first time since 1995.
The point of the design was to make the machine look good for the home PC market, and let's face it, it did look cool. They were aiming the machine at trendy newbies who have no intention of ever running a proper OS on their slick new PC.
freedom is the by-product of economic surplus but hey, I've had a long day
but you haven't really contributed anything at all have you. Maybe if you read the sources then you might have something interesting to say instead of just telling ppl that they are wrong without any evidence.