The Economist Technology Quarterly, March 12th 2005, Phones with Eyes, The talking cure,30

The Economist Technology Quarterly, March 12^th 2005, The talking cure,30.

Speech Technology: Good speech recognition requires a fast PC. ..

1) Give examples of speech recognition of software in use for over a decade and describe what they can do. What are the remaining problems? How do you train such a system?

2) What is predictive text : explain how it works.

3) Application of speech recognition : will keypads persist?