Speech recognition has come a long way.
With the emergence of Siri on the iPhone, good speech recognition is within the reach of many of us. How does it work? Why is automatic speech recognition so difficult? And what tricks does Siri have up her sleeve?
Linguist Daniel Midgley has the answers on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Siri’s Wikipedia page has some interesting tidbits on the history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software)
Marcus Forsberg (2003): Why is Speech Recognition Difficult? [PDF]
http://www.speech.kth.se/~rolf/gslt_papers/MarkusForsberg.pdf
