Hughes Aircraft Co quality inspectors at its Radar Systems Group in El Segundo, California are talking to computers during the manufacture of advanced radar modules, the General Motors unit reports: the company says it has developed a prototype speech recognition system that enables inspectors to describe problems to personal computers on their desks, keeping their eyes and hands free; the computers, which have a vocabulary of about 1,000 words each, record the information, eliminating tedious, time-consuming steps in the inspection of the modules, each of which contain hundreds of components, and the company is looking for the system to bring savings of over $1.5m a year.
