Voice recognition will never kill the keyboard was: Re: Evolution of the Apple Mouse

[Ian King]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
> bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:10 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: RE: Voice recognition will never kill the keyboard was: Re:
> Evolution of the Apple Mouse
> 
> On 1 Oct 2010 at 10:39, Ian King wrote:
> 
> > Yes, we were licensing TTS stuff from L&H, and then one day....
> 
> It's amazing how slowly the wheels of justice can turn.  This, from
> Wikipedia:
> 
> "On 20 September 2010, co-founders Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, as
> well as Nico Willaert, former vice chairman, and Gaston Bastiaens,
> former chief executive officer, were each sentenced to 5 years prison
> (of which 3 years effective and 2 years probationary) for fraud by
> the Ghent Court of Appeals. However, due to the endemnic problem of
> overcrowding in Belgian prisons and the policy of not executing
> sentences of 3 years or less, it is quite unlikely any of them will
> actually serve any time."
> 
> --Chuck
> 

Thanks for the pointer. Wow, that's ancient history - I worked on speech around the time my daughter was born, and she's in middle school.  :-)