Introduction

Speech Navigation

*Home* *Technology Profile* *History* *Major Players* *Recent Applications* *Potential and Limitations* *Future* *Related Links*		Imagine a time when you will be able to issue simple verbal commands to run all of the appliances, machines, and systems you use in your home, office, or on the road. Your voice will be all you'll need to prepare meals, shop and bank by phone, invest in the stock market, handle e-mail and even drive your car--without having to turn a key in the ignition or touch the steering wheel. Even security systems will rely on people's voices for computer passwords, access to office buildings, restricted areas, the home, and bank accounts. Although this sounds like science fiction, it’s already reality for some scientists who have already developed a number of voice recognition systems and are now building prototypes for others-which will give a new meaning to the term, "freedom of expression."

Imagine a time when you will be able to issue simple verbal commands to run all of the appliances, machines, and systems you use in your home, office, or on the road. Your voice will be all you'll need to prepare meals, shop and bank by phone, invest in the stock market, handle e-mail and even drive your car--without having to turn a key in the ignition or touch the steering wheel. Even security systems will rely on people's voices for computer passwords, access to office buildings, restricted areas, the home, and bank accounts.

Although this sounds like science fiction, it’s already reality for some scientists who have already developed a number of voice recognition systems and are now building prototypes for others-which will give a new meaning to the term, "freedom of expression."

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