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Article: Getting your words' worth: the poetry of voice recognition. (includes related articles on AT&T's research and on computer speech)
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- Computer Shopper
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- September 1, 1993
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In a science-fiction film 25 years ago, a computer spoke with and listened to the crew of a Jupiter-bound spaceship. It made enough of an impression that this is only one of many articles about voice-recognition technology that pays tribute to the HAL 9000.
The soft-spoken HAL listened to the continuous speech of ground and crew--and even a BBC interviewer--and responded pridefully and flawlessly. Or at least until the last few reels. Although the mission was set in the beginning of the next century, according to the 1968 script, the heuristically programmed computer named HAL was activated in 1992.
Although voice-recognition technology hasn't reached HAL-like ...