Speech recognition has come a long way in 50 years
Excerpt from the March 4, 1967, issue of Science News
SAY WHAT? Hello, Siri, can you understand me now? That conversation goes much differently today than it would have in the 1960s, when devices only knew nine words.
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Computers that hear
Computer engineers have dreamed of a machine that would translate speech into something that a vacuum tube or transistor could understand.