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The Industry of Spoken-Dialog Systems and the Third Generation of Interactive Applications

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One of the first speech recognition systems was built in 1952 at Bell Laboratories [1]. The system could recognize sequences of digits spoken with pauses between them.

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    Roberto Pieraccini

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  1. Department of Computing Science & Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

    Fang Chen

  2. Department of Speech Sciences, University of Helsinki, 9, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Kristiina Jokinen

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Pieraccini, R. (2010). The Industry of Spoken-Dialog Systems and the Third Generation of Interactive Applications. In: Chen, F., Jokinen, K. (eds) Speech Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73819-2_4

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