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It's good to talk. Voice could be the next big user interface. It won't be the first time, but it might be the first time it actually works. Imagine dispensing with those horrible menus on cameras.

In the mid-1970s, the U.S. Department of Defense and Carnegie Mellon together created the HARPY Speech Recognition System, the first voice recognition proof of concept capable of processing and ...