[FoRK] Cheap Electronics Dissection Project

[Dave Long]

> There's good voice-recognition software that supposedly needs about
> 15MIPS (ViaVoice) to run in real-time, and you may not even need
> real-time.  I don't know how much bandwidth to how much memory
> speech-recognition needs, though.

Looks like a fair amount: ViaVoice not only specs system memory 
(64-96M) but also 256K of L2 cache.  There are some people nearby 
working on automatic segmentation/speaker recognition/tagging and 
search, etc., and they use serious crunch for their applications, but 
maybe they'd have some ideas for what sorts of things could be done 
cheaply.

-Dave