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In this chapter we discuss, in an informal manner, some of the successes and a few of the outstanding problems of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker identification — for forensic, business and banking purposes. ASR can also help the hard-of-hearing by giving them printed text to read, and the wheelchair-bound by allowing them to control their vehicles by voice. Together with speech synthesis from text, human-machine dialogue systems offer attractive possibilities for all manner of information services.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
Alfred North Whitehead
If anything can go wrong, it will.
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Schroeder, M.R. (1999). Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification. In: Computer Speech. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03861-1_3
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