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Giving a Voice to Technology

Speech Understanding Research

(1970s)
Grasping one or two words is the natural first step in babies learning to speak and it was the same with
machines. DARPA put in the time—and the money—to grow their ability. Its Speech Understanding
Research project taught a thousand words to machines and brought them up to understand 90 percent
of continuously spoken speech.
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BY CHANDRA STEELE
SENIOR FEATURES WRITER
Chandra is senior features writer at PCMag.com. She got her tech journalism start at CMP/United
Business Media, beginning at Electronic Buyers' News, then making her way over to TechWeb and
VARBusiness.com. Chandra's happy to make a living writing, something she didn't think she could
do and why she chose to major in political science at Barnard College. For her tech tweets, it's
ChanSteele.

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