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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The term pocket listing (sometimes called a hip-pocket or whisper listing) gets tossed around quite a bit but it has a very specific meaning.

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But he called it a 'pocket tee' and made it an item of desire.

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If a pocket watch is called a hunter, it means that it has a cover that can snap closed.

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Regulations on dress and other aspects of adolescent life (both during and after school) are spelled out in pocket-sized, leather-bound handbooks called seito techo, which must be carried at all times.

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On June 17, Christie's will hold a two-part auction of pocket watches and wristwatches, as well as so-called skeleton, mystery and novelty clocks at Rockefeller Center.

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Banks--and most recently Google--have created so-called tax equity funds to finance those leases, in which investors get to pocket a 30% federal tax break for renewable energy projects.

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This is the first pocket PC that's designed to use a newer, smaller type of flash memory card called a MultiMediaCard.

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If in the seventies, some students argued that pocket calculators made it senseless to do arithmetic by hand, now the very value of sole authorship is called into question.

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