Sounds Familiar
After years of promise, voice recognition looks like a technology that might finally be coming of age. Peter Day reports.
After years of promise, voice recognition is at last becoming a significant method of using computers and accessing the Internet. Why now, and what difference does it make? Peter Day talks to the companies at the forefront of developments in the field (including Massachusetts-based Nuance, one of the largest makers of voice recognition technology), and asks whether our relationship with machines will change once we have the ability to talk to them.
[Picture: The IBM Shoebox, introduced in 1962, could understand 16 words: zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, minus, plus, subtotal, total, false, and off.]
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Vlad Sejnoha
Chief Technology Officer, Nuance
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Barry Collins
Editor, PC Pro magazine
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Steve Young
Professor of Information Engineering, Cambridge University
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Professor Timothy Dawson
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Barbara Dumery
Director of Diagnostic Solutions Marketing, Nuance
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Sean McGrath
Product Marketing Manager, Nuance
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David Nahamoo
Speech Chief Technology Officer, IBM Research
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Paul Saffo
Managing Director, Foresight, Discern Analytics
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