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Invention of the Dictaphone
Allowed messages to be recorded and typed up later. -
recognition of simple numbers
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Vowel Recognition
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Linear Predictive Coding
Statistical based formula to use sound waves to perform voice recognition -
Harpy Speech Understaning Unit
Carnegie Mellon University system that was able to recognize 1,011 with greater than 90% accuracy. -
Dragon Systems Established
Dragon Systems is owned Nuance today. Dragon is the most used voice recognition software today in medcine. -
Hidden Markov Model
Main foundation for speech recognition and understanding systems. -
Bell South introduces VAL
VAL-Voice activated link prompted callers to answer questions then scanned a database to provide the answers. Was the basis for future automated phone customer support systems. -
Siri for iPhone 4S