An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.
Remember Spinvox, the voicemail transcription service which seemed to have cracked seamless machine-based speech recognition?
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If you own a Windows CE machine and want handwriting recognition, get CalliGrapher.
But we know which approaches had the biggest commercial success: search engines, speech recognition, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and other technologies.
One example is speech-recognition and machine-translation technology.
With advances in feature and pattern recognition and other forms of machine intelligence, these video streams will throw off a tremendous amount of structured data, the use of which we will have no knowledge of or control over.
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Among dozens of recommendations, the report also calls for better use of digital technology and databases to engage supporters and raise money - in recognition of President Barack Obama's formidable political machine.
The control programs have been used to create control systems for a bipedal robot and a visual recognition system for a robot that works even when the machine is distracted by flashing lights and shadows.
Antonio Criminsi of the Machine Learning and Perception group - the team which in effect invented the visual recognition system of Kinect - demonstrated how Kinect's underlying technology can be adapted for medical diagnosis.
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Dr Hinton's experiments have focused on hand-written letters and numbers (handwriting recognition being a crucial, and so-far unsolved, problem in machine vision).
The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
It also represented a broader goal of Nuance as a speech recognition company: creating personal dictionaries that better understand what we say and type to a machine, be it a smartphone, car or laptop.
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The recognition isn't quite as good as CalliGrapher, but running CalliGrapher means using a Windows CE machine, an operating system that is far too complex for a mere electronic organizer.
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