well, it would appear that we had it trained, then one
morning out of the blue, it would just flake out and
have to be retrained. it would take around 3 days to
train it, then lose itself. i could not devote that
much time to it and still do my work. 

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> I once read an article by a newspaper columnist who
> tried using VR with
> several types of accents, and found that the VR
> software was most
> successful in recognising US New England accents and
> British accents.  The
> software packages had the most problems with thick
> US Southern drawls,
> which makes sense!  In any case, I would think
> training a VR software to
> recognise sounds voiced by persons with speech
> difficulties would be longer
> than those with standard or ("BBC") accents.
> 
> Kat
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Kendall David Corbett [log in to unmask]
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:17:19 -0700
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: its been great,
> 
> 
> I tried VR with my computer once when I injured my
> right arm, and the
> error rate, even after training made it so slow that
> it was difficult.
> That was 
> 3 1/2 years ago.  Hope it's gotten better since
> then. 
> 
> Kendall 
> 
> 
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