Friday, May 09, 2008
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‘ E – N E W S from ‘
‘ 2SS.Com ‘
‘ Complied and Edited by ‘
‘ Mailed on: 08/01/1998 8:38 PM Number 1 ‘
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‘ Here is your ‘fast-read’ update on identifying and ‘
‘ implementing strategic systems. ‘
‘ In this issue (5 Items): ‘
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‘ 1--Welcome to E-News from 2SS.Com ‘
‘ (AKA To Strategic Systems Co.) ‘
‘ ‘for thinking about Strategic Systems ‘
‘ and how to implement them. ‘
‘ 2--Voice Recognition Coming Fast But ‘
‘ Not Quite Here ‘
‘ 3--Product Watch ‘
‘ 4--Top Five Strategic Links ‘
‘ 5--Strategic Systems Advisory Panel, ‘
‘ 2SS.Com and your subscription. ‘
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‘ --------------Item One--------- ‘
‘ WELCOME TO E-NEWS (First Issue) ‘
‘ FROM 2SS.Com. ‘
‘ We’re very pleased at the interest we’ve ‘
‘ received in preparing for this first issue. ‘
‘ You will receive three issues before you ‘
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‘ subscribe by simply sending a message ‘
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‘ Subscribe.
‘ Our plan is to cut-down the mailing list. ‘
‘ Only those who respond by requesting ‘
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‘ E-News. ‘
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‘ --------------Item Two--------- ‘
‘ Voice Recognition Coming ‘
‘ Fast BUT Not quite here! ‘
‘ Summer ’97. The voice recog- ‘
‘ nition industry passed a major mile- ‘
‘ stone with the announcement of two ‘
‘ products that perform continuous ‘
‘ speech recognition. They both work ‘
‘ pretty well but are generation one prod- ‘
‘ ucts. The real news is that this tech- ‘
‘ nology is poised to mature and be- ‘
‘ come widely available for little cost. ‘
‘ A 166MHz Pentium or higher PC with ‘
‘ a standard sound card is and software ‘
‘ for $100 to $300all you need to start. ‘
‘ Most expensive are the set-up, voice ‘
‘ training and learning time you’ll need to ‘
‘ commit. Today, accuracy is advertised ‘
‘ at 95%. What is needed is 99%! Also ‘
‘ needed is a somewhat simpler training ‘
‘ and learning process. But, get ready, it’s ‘
‘ coming fast! ‘
‘ PCWeek 6-29-98 says voice recog- ‘
‘ nition continues to move closer to the ‘
‘ mainstream”. The article notes that ‘
‘ Corel (WordPerfect), Microsoft (Word), ‘
‘ Lotus (WordPro) all have word proces- ‘
‘ sor to speech recognition projects ‘
‘ for sale or in the works. ‘
‘ For more information there is a good ‘
‘ May-15, 98 comparison of three tools at ‘
‘ http://ai.miningco.com/index.htm select ‘
‘ Features’ at the bottom and scroll to ‘
‘ 5-17-98. ‘
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‘ ------------Item Three--------- ‘
‘ Product Watch ‘
‘ March ’98 Mobile Computing magazine ‘
‘ (p26) announced Auto-PC at about ‘
‘ $1,300. Why a PC in your car? It plays ‘
‘ AM and FM radio, plays audio CDs, reads ‘
‘ CD-ROMs and includes an eight-color ‘
‘ LCD panel display. ‘
‘ Especially interesting is integrated voice ‘
‘ recognition that let’s you talk to the PC ‘
‘ while your eyes are on the road. There ‘
‘ are 200 pre-programmed phrases to alert ‘
‘ you to incoming E-Mail and help main- ‘
‘ tain a personal information manager ‘
‘ (PIM) which is included. ‘
‘ The PIM can place calls on request with ‘
‘ the optional cell-phone ($250). The Auto- ‘
‘ PC can also connect to a ground posit- ‘
‘ ioning system and give you turn-by-turn ‘
‘ directions. ‘
‘ Anyone have drivers in the field who ‘
‘ you’d like to be more productive? The ‘
‘ price of doing just that is falling fast! ‘
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‘ -------------Item Four--------- ‘
‘ TOP FIVE STRATEGIC LINKS
‘ 1--Fast Language Translations between ‘
‘ the world’s six most popular languages ‘
‘ http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate ‘
‘ 2--Your computer with sound card ‘
‘ says what you type by converting typing ‘
‘ to a playable Wave (.Wav) file ‘
‘ http://www.att.com/aspg/odemo.html. ‘
‘ 3--Microsoft weighs in on Year 2,000 ‘
‘ concerns for its multitude of products ‘
http://www.microsoft.com/ithome/topics/year2k/product/product.htm ‘
‘ 4--Artificial Intelligence surveyed, re- ‘
‘ viewed and analyzed from a laymen’s ‘
‘ perspective ‘
‘ http://ai.miningco.com/index.htm ‘
‘ 5--Microsoft Automated Technical Sup- ‘
‘ port is a real sign of things to come. ‘
‘ What support could you firm provide as ‘
‘ Microsoft already does for its may ‘
‘ products? ‘
‘ http://support.microsoft.com/support/c.asp?M=F‘
‘ Try these links to get a glimpse of the ‘
‘ what we think the future will look like. ‘
‘ More in the next issue of 2SS.Com. ‘
‘ Thanks for getting to here!….’
‘ We have 4 free round-trip tickets on ‘
‘ Sacramento’s River Otter Taxi for the .’
‘ fifth and tenth readers who E-Mail back ’
‘ “I’d like to get 4 for being #5 or #10.” ‘
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‘ -------------Item Five---------- ‘
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