Samuels, director of neuroscience critical care at Emory University in Atlanta, said portions of the left brain control speech and understanding language.

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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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Now, I know that not all countries in this body share this particular understanding of the protection of free speech.

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Future advancements in mobile speech recognition and understanding will lead to the reinvention of how doctors interact and use health IT in the coming year.

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President Obama's speech Monday is a measure of how far our understanding of the Muslim world has progressed.

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Even if Obama's State Department seems fully enamored with a "test of consequences" on speech critical of Islam, most Americans across the political spectrum will realize that this perverts the traditional understanding of the First Amendment.

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These implementations may still be a few years off, but speech recognition in virtual assistants (which includes understanding context, and not just words) is paving the way for these seemingly science fiction technologies to be realized.

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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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