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(Chirping)
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(Vocalizations, different languages)
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(Talking overlaps in background)
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(Computerized beeping)
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(Man) We come into this world with the
innate ability to learn to interact
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with other sentient beings.
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(Child vocalizing)
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(Man) Suppose you are to interact with
other people by writing little messages.
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(Man) It'd be a real pain.
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(Man) And that's how we interact
with computers.
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It's much easier just to talk to them...
just so much easier...
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(Man) If the computers could understand
what we're saying.
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For that, you need really
good speech recognition.
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(Narrator) The first speech recognition
system was developed by Bell Laboratories
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(Narrator) in 1952. It could only recognize
numbers spoken by one person.
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(Narrator) In the 1970s, Carnegie-Mellon
came out with the Harpy System.
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(Narrator) This was able to recognize over
1,000 words and different pronunciations
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(Narrator) of the same word.
- (Man) Tomato - (Woman) Tomato
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(Narrator) Speech recognition continued
in the 80s with the introduction of the
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(Narrator) Hidden Markov Model, which
used a more mathematical approach
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(Narrator) to analyzing sound waves that
led to many breakthroughs we have today.
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You're taking in very raw audio wave forms
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like you get through a microphone
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Claude Almansi
Thank you so much, Michael. You descriptions of non-verbal sounds are great!
Claude
michael.j.shepard
You're welcome - thank you very much. :)
bsrcube
Thank you, Michael and Claude.