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Speech Recognition is one of the main elements of natural language processing, or computer speech technology. Speech is derived from sounds created by the human articulatory organs, such as the vocal cords and the tongue. Through variable exposure to speech during infancy, a child is able to understand similar-sounding utterances from different people, perhaps due to the phonetic regularities in the syllables they hear. The mental capabilities of the brain helps humans achieve this remarkable capability. So far, we have only been able to reproduce this in computers on a limited basis.

The Challenge of Speech Recognition: Writing systems are ancient, going back as far as the Sumerians of 6,000 years ago. The phonograph, which allowed the analog recording and playback of speech, dates to 1877. Speech recognition had to await the development of computer, however, due to multifarious problems with the recognition of speech.

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Dien Bien Phu is a valley and small town in North Vietnam, 260 miles northwest of Hanoi and the place of the decisive 1954 battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. In military shorthand, Dien Bien Phu has also become a synonym for an extremely unwise decision: the attempt to hold a seemingly strong defensive position, against which the enemy, cooperating with the defender's plans, will then destroy himself against the impregnable fortifications.[more...]