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Subject: Igarashi's ideas
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From: "Evgueni Sklyanin" <eks2@york.ac.uk>
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from http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991442

>Non-verbal utterances could one day be the way to control
>personal computers and navigate through call-centre systems,
>reckons Takeo Igarashi of Brown University in Providence, Rhode
>Island.
>
>Instead of having to speak carefully and
>deliberately to make a voice recognition
>system understand you, Igarashi wants to
>use what he says are the much more
>distinctive properties of pitch and duration
>in our "huhs", "mmms" and "uh-ohs".
>
Can one use Lojban attitudinals in this way?

mi'e .evgenis.