Stream computing and speech?

Patrick noticed this article in Information Week a few days ago:

ATI, which is being acquired by AMD in a $5.4 billion deal, is designing a version of its graphic chip that can connect to AMD's popular Opteron processor via Coherent Hypertransport, AMD's fast interconnection technology between CPUs and ancillary chips in a system. The companies are also working on systems that could combine AMD and ATI technologies on a single silicon chip. The move, which ATI called "stream computing," could help take graphics chips beyond their traditional domains of PC games and photo editing and apply them to running programs genomics research, derivatives pricing, seismic processing for the oil and has industry, and face and speech recognition for homeland security. The technology could also provide a boost to consumer software; Microsoft is building into its upcoming Windows Vista operating system features that take more direct advantage of graphics processing technology.

What in the world is "speech recognition for homeland security"? 

Published 04 October 06 07:08 by sprague

Comments

# j3pflynn said on October 4, 2006 10:58 AM:
Probably voice recognition/identification of intercepted communications.
# woggut said on October 4, 2006 12:45 PM:
RE: What in the world is "speech recognition for homeland security"? Probably a google-like server farm listening to all the voice traffic and trapping the conversations of "individuals of interest".
# James Nuttall said on October 5, 2006 8:52 PM:
A engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon is working on a computer chip that will do speech recognition. They have a prototype built. They hope within the next couple of years to have a chip that can actually analyze speech at 100 times the rate of regular speech. The whole concept is you can take an entire day's worth of telephone conversations and analyze them in 20 minutes. So much for privacy. I still love speech recognition even though the big brother aspect is a little frightening.
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