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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: voice interfaces and languages
Keywords: Loglan, voice interfaces, rule-based languages
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Date: 26 Feb 90 23:39:29 GMT
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In article <1313@sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
}BTW, what is the current state of the art in speech recognition?  I get
}the impression that it's at least five years away, and has been for a
}long time...

Natural language speech recognition was ten years in the future for about
thirty years.  It's now about five years in the future and I expect it to
stay there for at least another ten years. (-:

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