A short article in Business Week profiles areas where speech recognition technology may become mainstream, including hands-free controls in cars and medical translation, highlighting IBM research in these areas. From the article:

Speech recognition became more accurate as computer scientists found ways for software to grasp some of the meaning of language, so that it could put individual words in context. That same understanding is being extended, though not without difficulty, from simple recognition to simultaneous translation… Speech has been flying below the radar for quite a while, promising more than it delivers. This next wave of tools could make devices easier to use and users more productive.

Full article: Hello again, speech recognition

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