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Challenges in adopting speech recognition

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Although progress has been impressive, there are still several hurdles that speech recognition technology must clear before ubiquitous adoption can be realized. R&D in spontaneous and free-flowing speech style is critical to its success.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 47, Issue 1
              Multimodal interfaces that flex, adapt, and persist
              January 2004
              104 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/962081
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