Hear! Here! Computer Speech Recognition

[Recorded: Autumn, 1968]
Today, its becoming common for computers to understand and react to our voice commands. From ubiquitous customer support voice response systems to personal cell phones, computers are now literally doing what we tell them. This level of computer speech recognition was not an overnight development. In fact, designing and programming computer systems to understand human speech is a challenge that has been pursued for decades. This historical film, produced by the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) in 1969 discusses and demonstrates the challenges and progress made in their speech recognition project. The film first shows a computer learning to recognize phrases and speech patterns. Next, a computer hand-eye system is shown being controlled through voice commands. Commands as complicated as "Pick up the small block in the lower left-hand corner", are recognized and the tasks are carried out by the computer controlled arm.
This film made available to the Computer History Museum courtesy of Stanford University.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Computer
• History
• Museum
• Stanford
• Speech
• Recognition
• SAIL
• DARPA
• Voice
• Command
• Robots
• PDP-6
• Historic
• Documentary

[0RobinHood1]

what are you on?the opening titles are awesome.

[riDDimann]

Vector displays :D

[matrix86]

If you had payed attention to the video description, you would have noticed that this was recorded in 1968.

Why do people never pay attention to the video descriptions? There's generally most of the info you need to know in there.

[mukatuna]

Over 40 years later and I don't think things have advanced that much for speech recognition.

[adsarode]

Thanks for uploading

[maxrioseco]

ahahah very psychedelic xD

L.S.D. @.@

[LeonardRockstein]

Anyone tried to book an air ticket via voice recognition recently?...things haven't progressed that much in 40 years. hehehehe

[softsignals]

Amazing what they can do these days.

[MarbleMind]

you realize this is an amateur production?

[TheLarssan]

True.