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Science Friday > Archives > 2001 > August > August 3, 2001:

Hour Two: Salt-Soil Tomato / Voice Technology

Wouldn't it be great if you could control your world with just the sound of your voice? Scientists are working on voice technologies, from voice-controlled PDAs, to attention monitors for your car, to systems that make it easier to order airline tickets over the phone. We'll find out about them in this hour. Plus, a new genetically-engineered tomato that grows in salty soil could bring millions of acres of lost farmland back to life.

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Guests:
Eduardo Blumwald
Professor, Cell Biology Department of Pomology
University of California, Davis
Davis, California

David Nahamoo
Senior Manager, Human Language Technologies Department
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Somers, New York

Timothy James (T.J.) Hazen
Research Scientist
MIT Laboratory For Computer Science--Spoken Language Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Nigel Beck
Director of IBM Voice Systems
IBM Corporation
Boca Raton, Florida

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PC Computing Help : How It Works : Voice Recognition
Lernout & Hauspie: The Speech and Language Company
Dragon Systems, Inc.
IBM ViaVoice for Windows
SatireWire | IBM Announces Voice Recognition Brake Threw
Klatt, Review of text-to-speech conversion for English
Text-to-Speech
AT&T Labs Speech Technologies - Home Page
The Festival Speech Synthesis System
Speech Synthesis Links

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