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Copyright © 2004 William Crossman

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, digital, mechanical, photocopied, recorded, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the author.

To contact William Crossman and/or the CompSpeak 2050 Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Cultures, go to website <www.compspeak2050.org>.

First Printing 2004

Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication

Crossman, William.

VIVO (voice-in/voice-out) : the coming age of

talking computers / William Crossman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN 2004093358

ISBN 1-58790-100-5

1. Information society--Forecasting. 2. Speech

processing systems--Social aspects. I. Title.

HM851.C76 2004 303.48’33

QBI04-200238

Cover design by Roslyn Abraham and William Crossman, with assistance from Barbara Barnett and Rudy Lemcke. Credit also to the photographers whose photos adorn the cover.

Typesetting and graphics by Roslyn Abraham, D.G. Park, and Lauren Agresti.

Articles by William Crossman based on ideas in this book have appeared in numerous publications, including: Frontiers of the 21^st Century, Teaching and Learning in a Network World, World Forests and Technology, The Futurist, Community College Week, Good Weekend magazine—Sydney (AU) Morning Herald, Futura, The Next Twenty Years Futures, and Our World: The New Millennium. For a complete list, access the author’s website.

Disclaimer: This book, its author William Crossman, and the CompSpeak 2050 Institute are not connected with and/or do not endorse any specific product, business, corporation, agency, institution, offline or online entity, website, or individual that is named or uses the words “Vivo,” “voice-in/voice-out,” “talking computer,” “Vivolutionary,” “compspeak,” or any other concept or word that appears in this book—except such as are created by, and/or are copyrighted by, and/or are held as intellectual property rights by, and/or are approved contractually in writing by William Crossman.

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