Engineers working in the field expect to be creating computer-generated speech that is indistinguishable from human speech within a year.
You will probably communicate with your computer more via speech than typing.
One MT reader says "The chip sounds very good with delicious robotic feeling, " and he's planning to build a "computer controlled musical speech synthesizer" around it.
Ballmer introduced its next-generation touch-sensitive table computer during his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday.
When one comes in, the computer translates it into speech, then sets up your mobile phone to call the person trying to reach you.
Carnahan said she had been working at her computer on a campaign speech she had been planning to deliver the next day for her husband when he called her, shortly before the crash.
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Many GPS devices and computer text-to-speech programs now offer multiple voice options.
By 2020, technology will have made such rapid progress, that speech recognition by a computer will exceed that of a human.
The project draws on expertise in speech recognition and in computer vision - ways of capturing visual data - which have been a strength of Cambridge and the Toshiba lab in particular.
Though these changes can go unnoticed by a person with a disease, relatives and friends more often pick up on it, but a computer algorithm that detects nuances of speech and subtle changes could detect abberations with much greater frequency.
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In his acceptance speech, Atalla stated that computer technology is still in its infancy.
The ability to generate realistic speech from text stored in a computer will be crucial if voice-enabled services are to take off.
For example vehicles are rarely hooked up to the internet or to remote servers, and therefore the computer processor already installed by the car manufacturer handles speech recognition.
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Per Ola Kristensson and Keith Vertanen, at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, have developed a method of allowing speech-recognition programs to share their thoughts, as it were, with the user, in order to speed up the correction process.
"I believe we've got to find the right combination of incentives and initiatives to bridge this divide, " Clinton said Tuesday in a speech at COMDEX, a major trade show for computer and electronics products in Chicago.
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Cerf, who helped design the first protocols that allowed information to be sent across computer networks in the late 1970s, expressed regret in a speech Tuesday that he hadn't designed the Internet to be a safer, more regulated system.
The Army's push to use Macs to help protect its computing corps got its start in August 2005, when General Steve Boutelle, the Army's chief information officer, gave a speech calling for more diversity in the Army's computer vendors.
Already advanced speech recognition systems can be found in smartphones and most modern computer operating systems.
And even if parents try to keep the old speech alive, their efforts can be doomed by films and computer games.
It is an subject which was raised by the Google chairman Eric Schmidt in a speech in Edinburgh in August, where he expressed amazement that computer science was not taught in British schools.
The computer of the future, one that sips power, boots up instantly and ably handles the most complex speech and image recognition, is under construction in a handful of laboratories.
This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.
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