The long quest for technology that understands speech as well as a human
Friday, December 4, 2015 - 09:35
in Mathematics & Economics
Sitting in his office overlooking downtown Bellevue, Washington, Microsoft's Fil Alleva is talking about the long and sometimes difficult road he and other speech recognition experts have taken from the early work of the 1970s to the situation he is in today, where he can turn to his computer and say, "Cortana, I want a pizza" and get results.