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Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban question



On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:46:08PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2004 17:16, stewartberntson@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Is anything being done on a speech-recognition grammer for Lojban?
> > Since the language designed for understandability in high-noise
> > environments, it could be perfect for use as a remote speech
> > interface (i.e. computer has a problem, calls the owner's cell
> > (using SAPI likely), the owner could tell the computer what to do in
> > lojban, which would reduce the errors in recognition with similar
> > words (for example, reboot and refresh or something like that)
> 
> I don't think Lojban actually is more noise-tolerant than other
> languages. 

I agree.

> The gismu list was designed so that two gismu would not differ in the
> final vowel (except for brod*) or by one similar-sounding consonant in
> the same position, but that didn't keep me from mishearing {kansa} as
> {tamca} on a jbofongri call where the bandwidth was low. 

Ouch.

My favorite is always kalci/kelci.

-Robin

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