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"media": { | |
"url": "http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/42/24042-004-C8F9C0D5.jpg", | |
"caption": "Thomas Edison's phonograph" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1877" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Thomas Edison's phonograph becomes the first device to record and reproduce sound. The method is fragile, however, and is prone to damage.[2]" | |
}, | |
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"media": { | |
"url": "http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/13102/13267009_3.jpg?v=8CF240A5B9825E0", | |
"caption": "Thomas Edison's dictation machine" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1879" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Thomas Edison invents the first dictation machine, a slightly improved version of his phonograph.[2]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/VODER_demonstrated_on_1939_New_York_World_Fair_-_The_VODER_fascinates_the_crowds_-_Bell_Telephone_Quarterly_%28January_1940%29.jpg/1280px-VODER_demonstrated_on_1939_New_York_World_Fair_-_The_VODER_fascinates_the_crowds_-_Bell_Telephone_Quarterly_%28January_1940%29.jpg", | |
"caption": "Voder, the first electronic speech synthesizer" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1936" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "A team of engineers at Bell Labs, led by Homer Dudley, begins work on the Voder, the first electronic speech synthesizer.[3]" | |
}, | |
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"media": { | |
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/VODER_demonstrated_on_1939_New_York_World_Fair_-_The_VODER_fascinates_the_crowds_-_Bell_Telephone_Quarterly_%28January_1940%29.jpg/1280px-VODER_demonstrated_on_1939_New_York_World_Fair_-_The_VODER_fascinates_the_crowds_-_Bell_Telephone_Quarterly_%28January_1940%29.jpg", | |
"caption": "Dudley is granted a patent for the Voder, US patent 2151091" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1939", | |
"month": "3", | |
"day": "21" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Dudley is granted a patent for the Voder, US patent 2151091 A.[3]" | |
}, | |
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"media": { | |
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Golden_Gate_International_Exposition_%28map%29.jpg", | |
"caption": "The Voder is demonstrated at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1939" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Demonstration", | |
"text": "The Voder is demonstrated at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. A keyboard and foot pedals were used to have the machine emit speech.[3]" | |
}, | |
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"media": { | |
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/1939fairhelicline.jpg", | |
"caption": "The Voder is demonstrated at the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1939" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Demonstration", | |
"text": "The Voder is demonstrated at the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City.[3]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://cdn02.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IBM-Shoebox-front.jpg", | |
"caption": "A team at Bell Labs designs the Audrey, a machine capable of understanding spoken digits" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1952" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "A team at Bell Labs designs the Audrey, a machine capable of understanding spoken digits.[1]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi1yr3Ku7nRAhUo7oMKHZzbAL4QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-03.ibm.com%2Fibm%2Fhistory%2Fibm100%2Fus%2Fen%2Ficons%2Fspeechreco%2F&bvm=bv.143423383,d.amc&psig=AFQjCNEtsjbw5opU3g_qibkYDfHloR-MXw&ust=1484202352786878", | |
"caption": "IBM demonstrates the Shoebox, a machine that can understand up to 16 spoken words in English, at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1962" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Demonstration", | |
"text": "IBM demonstrates the Shoebox, a machine that can understand up to 16 spoken words in English, at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.[4]" | |
}, | |
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"media": { | |
"url": "http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/images/icp/F647792J81871S75/us__en_us__ibm100__pioneering_speech__experimental_speech__900x630.jpg", | |
"caption": "IBM invents the Automatic Call Identification system, enabling engineers to talk to and receive spoken answers from a device" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1971" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "IBM invents the Automatic Call Identification system, enabling engineers to talk to and receive spoken answers from a device.[5]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://image.slidesharecdn.com/speechrecognition-120423163234-phpapp02/95/speech-recognition-4-728.jpg?cb=1335199041", | |
"caption": "DARPA funds five years of speech recognition research with the goal of ending up with a machine capable of understanding a minimum of 1,000 words. The program led to the creation of the Harpy by Carnegie Mellon, a machine capable of understanding 1,011 words" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1971" | |
}, | |
"end_date": { | |
"year": "1976" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Program", | |
"text": "DARPA funds five years of speech recognition research with the goal of ending up with a machine capable of understanding a minimum of 1,000 words. The program led to the creation of the Harpy by Carnegie Mellon, a machine capable of understanding 1,011 words.[1]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwinjtCsvbnRAhUq5IMKHQxwA70QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esat.kuleuven.be%2Fpsi%2Fspraak%2Fdemo%2FRecog%2Fpage4.html&bvm=bv.143423383,d.amc&psig=AFQjCNFlO8zBagserw9t81p_o0fRNinSsg&ust=1484202898068032", | |
"caption": "The hidden Markov model begins to be used in speech recognition systems, allowing machines to more accurately recognize speech by predicting the probability of unknown sounds being words" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1980" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Technique", | |
"text": "The hidden Markov model begins to be used in speech recognition systems, allowing machines to more accurately recognize speech by predicting the probability of unknown sounds being words.[1]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjH4uDFvrnRAhUE2IMKHWAtAyQQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingball.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F05%2F50-common-typing-faults-by-albert.html&bvm=bv.143423383,d.amc&psig=AFQjCNGXTtUyvSgTyEHp91trAKHHE_POrA&ust=1484203077358571", | |
"caption": "IBM begins work on the Tangora, a machine that would be able to recognize 20,000 spoken words by the mid 1980s" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1985" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "IBM begins work on the Tangora, a machine that would be able to recognize 20,000 spoken words by the mid 1980s.[5]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/47/21/da/4721dae78dcf398baa9f93ca1a5cf4e2.jpg", | |
"caption": "The invention of the World of Wonder's Julie Doll, a toy children could train to respond to their voice, brings speech recognition technology to the home" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1987" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "The invention of the World of Wonder's Julie Doll, a toy children could train to respond to their voice, brings speech recognition technology to the home.[1]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61VvrAVkDcL._SY445_.jpg", | |
"caption": "Dragon launches Dragon Dictate, the first speech recognition product for consumers" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1990" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Dragon launches Dragon Dictate, the first speech recognition product for consumers.[1]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xuedong_Huang/publication/2292549/figure/fig2/AS:339526728863750@1457960888816/Figure-2-Summary-of-the-SPHINX-II-speech-recognition-system.png", | |
"caption": "Sphinx-II, the first large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition system, is invented by Xuedong Huang" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1993" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Sphinx-II, the first large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition system, is invented by Xuedong Huang.[6]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://www.sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/paper/jcl-fg2.jpg", | |
"caption": "IBM launches the MedSpeak, the first commercial product capable of recognizing continuous speech" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "1996" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "IBM launches the MedSpeak, the first commercial product capable of recognizing continuous speech.[5]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2002/11/29/speech_recognition/msword.jpg", | |
"caption": "Microsoft integrates speech recognition into their Office products" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2002" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Application", | |
"text": "Microsoft integrates speech recognition into their Office products.[7]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/07/nsa-100045183-medium.jpg", | |
"caption": "The National Security Agency begins using speech recognition to isolate keywords when analyzing recorded conversations" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2006" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Application", | |
"text": "The National Security Agency begins using speech recognition to isolate keywords when analyzing recorded conversations.[8]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://images.highspeedbackbone.net/skuimages/large/Microsoft-66R-00765.jpg", | |
"caption": "Microsoft releases Windows Vista, the first version of Windows to incorporate speech recognition" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2007", | |
"month": "1", | |
"day": "30" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Application", | |
"text": "Microsoft releases Windows Vista, the first version of Windows to incorporate speech recognition.[9]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/207330-goog_411_original.gif", | |
"caption": "Google introduces GOOG-411, a telephone-based directory service. This will serve as a foundation for the company's future Voice Search product" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2007" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Google introduces GOOG-411, a telephone-based directory service. This will serve as a foundation for the company's future Voice Search product.[10]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://gigaom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2008/11/googlescreen2.jpg", | |
"caption": "Google launches the Voice Search app for the iPhone, bringing speech recognition technology to mobile devices" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2008", | |
"month": "11", | |
"day": "14" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Application", | |
"text": "Google launches the Voice Search app for the iPhone, bringing speech recognition technology to mobile devices.[11]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x3QYfEwtcZM/maxresdefault.jpg", | |
"caption": "Apple announces Siri, a digital personal assistant. In addition to being able to recognize speech, Siri is able to understand the meaning of what it is told and take appropriate action" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2011", | |
"month": "10", | |
"day": "4" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Apple announces Siri, a digital personal assistant. In addition to being able to recognize speech, Siri is able to understand the meaning of what it is told and take appropriate action.[12]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/140402153808-t-cortana-microsoft-windows-digital-personal-assistant-00000427-620x348.jpg", | |
"caption": "Microsoft announces Cortana, a digital personal assistant similar to Siri" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2014", | |
"month": "4", | |
"day": "2" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Application", | |
"text": "Microsoft announces Cortana, a digital personal assistant similar to Siri.[13]" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"media": { | |
"url": "http://site.com/image.jpg", | |
"caption": "Amazon announces the Echo, a voice-controlled speaker. The Echo is powered by Alexa, a digital personal assistant similar to Siri and Cortana. While Siri and Cortana are not the most important features of the devices on which they run, the Echo is dedicated to Alexa" | |
}, | |
"start_date": { | |
"year": "2014", | |
"month": "11", | |
"day": "6" | |
}, | |
"headline": "Invention", | |
"text": "Amazon announces the Echo, a voice-controlled speaker. The Echo is powered by Alexa, a digital personal assistant similar to Siri and Cortana. While Siri and Cortana are not the most important features of the devices on which they run, the Echo is dedicated to Alexa.[14]" | |
} | |
] | |
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