For many of us, our first experience with speech recognition technology was a frustrating exchange with an automated telephone system that seemed incapable of understanding what department we wished to be connected to. Speech recognition has come a long way in the past few years and has made its way into the daily lives of anyone with a smart phone – true, Siri and other mobile assistants sometimes misunderstand what we are saying with often humorous results, but in general speech recognition technology is able to understand and act on much of what we say, even taking accents and regional…
