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Speech Recognition’s Early Days

“There is now enough in our artificial intelligence arsenal to make reasonable inferences about context,” said Tom Gruber, a computer scientist and co-founder of Siri, whose personal assistant software is designed to listen to spoken questions, deduce the meaning, and act accordingly.

What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?

For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer.