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History and Development of Speech Recognition

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Speech is the primary means of communication between humans. For reasons ranging from technological curiosity about the mechanisms for mechanical realization of human speech capabilities to the desire to automate simple tasks which necessitate human–machine interactions, research in automatic speech recognition by machines has attracted a great deal of attention for five decades.

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Furui, S. (2010). History and Development of Speech Recognition. In: Chen, F., Jokinen, K. (eds) Speech Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73819-2_1

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