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Articles by Michael Harris

Put Your Best Voice Forward

Organizations everywhere are turning up the volume on speech recognition applications. Charles Schwab & Co. recently announced a new application that will recognize the spoken names of more than 13,000 stocks, mutual funds, or market indicators to provide callers with up-to-the-minute quotes. Carnegie-Mellon University is developing an application that will make Pittsburgh police officers safer drivers by enabling them to speak vehicle registration numbers into a national vehicle tracing system while they're behind the wheel.