The prototype uses an open-source speech-recognition program called Pocket Sphinx, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, but Dr Kristensson reckons it would be easy to apply the same approach to commercially available programs like Nuance's Dragon.

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He said it should be fairly easy to test this latest approach in humans.

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This group will be very easy to get back in the stores if the approach is correct.

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"It's the easy way out, " Panetta said, adding that there is a price to be paid for such an approach.

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