It was, to be sure, a mind-bending advance in artificial intelligence, and a fascinating display of natural language recognition.

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And, eventually, more natural modes of interacting with computers will finally prevail, including touch, natural language recognition, digital pens and other motion cues.

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Google Glass would use natural language voice recognition to operate, making it a perfect candidate for virtual assistant integration.

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Those four technical challenges are: the knowledge graph, speech recognition, natural language understanding and (understanding) conversation, he said.

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Nina combines Nuance speech recognition, Text-to-Speech (TTS), voice biometrics, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology hosted in the cloud to deliver an interactive user experience that not only understands what is said, but also can identify who is saying it.

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