The grant was made on the basis that a speech-recognition chip would have applications in homeland security.

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Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.

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Intel promises that the new chip will provide more realistic games, better speech recognition, Internet images that viewers can grasp and turn over, and smooth video that's more like TV.

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