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With all the talk about performance I thought this question
might be of interest.
I was just reading and article, in the January " Communications of the
ACM" that talks about the details and performance improvement of the new
mmx Pentiums. The quick and simple explanation of it is that
mmx technology provide several new instructions that can manipulate
(e.g. add multiply) several 8, 16 or 32 bits numbers at the same time.
For example I could process four samples of data from my 16 bit sound
card all in 1 instruction vice 4. This method of doing parallel
computation commonly known as single instruction multiple data (SIMD).
This article noted significant performance increases for multimedia
applications such as graphics and speech (e.g. voice recognition),
the one catch is that in order to see such performance improvements
a program must specifically make use of these special instructions.
My question is if anyone (especially those people on the list
working for voice recognition developers) knows if any of the
voice recognition products (e.g. dragon, Kurzweil and voice type)
have plans to make use of this technology? If so will
such improvements come as a patch or and upgrade, and
his there any official statement of time when such improvements
could be expected? (Ok, maybe I'm asking for a lot here,
but I'll take what I can get). Thanks,
tmk
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