Long ago - and I mean *long* ago - mid 1970's in fact - one group in our research department at SDC in Santa Monica was doing a project called "Continuous Voice Recognition".
The customer was, I believe, one or more of those three letter agencies scattered near DC in Virginia and Maryland.
And the never clearly articulated goal was to facilitate wire tapping by automating the recognition of trigger words and phrases so that a human could then jump in and listen.
They had a cool poster on the wall "Fricative-Plosive Analysis"
I turned the sound proof room they built into my place to hide in order to get work done.
That was 50 years ago. Voice recognition and comprehension has advanced a long way since then.
Karl Auerbach
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