Intelligent character recognition machine.

智能字符识别器。

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Even so, there are many current technologies, such as speech recognition, machine translation, and IBM's human-beating chess grandmaster Deep Blue, that would have seemed like AI at the beginning.

即使如此，但有许多流行技术，比如语音识别，机器翻译，以及IBM那台击败人类国际象棋大师的计算机“深蓝”似乎都像是人工智能的某种萌芽。

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His credentials stem from being a pioneer in various fields of computing, such as optical character recognition – the technology behind CDs – and automatic speech recognition by machine.

他的确信源于他在电脑各个领域都是先行者，比如光学字符识别（CD背后的科技基础），及机器自动语音识别等领域。

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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.

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But we know which approaches had the biggest commercial success: search engines, speech recognition, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and other technologies.

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One example is speech-recognition and machine-translation technology.

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