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>BTW Anybody know of any good speech recognition HARDWARE (or software, but
>I doubt that exists) that could be used for voice control in a medium
>sized room i.e.i.e mic hanging from center of ceiling (probably dictionary
>based). Also speech synthesis hardware that is dictionary based (with a
>female voice preferably) that could be run through a PA system.

	Just FYI:

	There's speech synthesis PCMCIA card (yes, we can go out with this!)
	from Hitachi micro computer co., designed for Japanese speech
	synthesis.
	Usage is very simple: just write() Japanese phonetic string into
	character device, then the card will generate the sound.
	The driver is ready for merge and I sent to hosokawa-san (it needs
	to be merged with PAO PCMCIA support)

	For non-Japanese people: I have never tried, but maybe we can:
	- Use the card so that it will pronounce English text
	  Dictionary for English word -> Japanese phonetic letter is necessery
	  but if we got this it is simple query-and-replace
	- generate voice data for English - need more document/whatever
	  from Hitachi...

	If any of you are interested in getting/beta-testing the driver,
	pls let me know.  The card is not very popular (we must order directly
	to Hitachi I think), but this may of help for some people.

itojun