Speech recognition has come a long way in 50 years
Excerpt from the March 4, 1967, issue of Science News
![talking to a smartphone](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/020817_BO_50YA_speech_main_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SAY WHAT? Hello, Siri, can you understand me now? That conversation goes much differently today than it would have in the 1960s, when devices only knew nine words.
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