From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Feb 26 16:28:46 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AwVro-0005ar-Rr for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:28:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:28:36 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban question Message-ID: <20040227002836.GC12251@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <04022617460813.02957@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <04022617460813.02957@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7151 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list 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 -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui