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A Brief History of ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition

August 30, 2018 0 Comments on A Brief History of ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition
Posted in Featured Article

Foreword With the general ubiquity of mobile telephones and increasing popularity of assistive technologies built into Google Home, Siri, and Alexa, the capabilities of modern voice recognition technologies are often taken for granted. While most of us now issue voice commands and dictate messages to our devices with nary a second thought, it has taken decades of painstaking research to…

“How I Built This” – Compaq Computers: Rod Canion

May 23, 2017 0 Comments on “How I Built This” – Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
Posted in PC, Retro Computing History
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The NPR podcast How I Built This is a podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. On May 22, they released an episode where they talked with Rod Canion, one of the three co-founders of Compaq Computers. He left Texas Instruments in 1981 after being assigned a project that he felt wasn’t going…