Chips Promise to Boost Speech Recognition

by Stephen Shankland ZDNet News, 22 Aug 2006 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are using custom computer chips to tackle a problem in speech recognition that software largely hasn't been able to solve. Speech recognition has long been a computer industry dream -- but it never has become practical reality for most computer users. But researcher Rob Rutenbar argues that using a custom processor rather than software will improve speech recognition speed and lower its power consumption. Read more