From: john@jfeldredge.com

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:15:59 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote:

> Of course, SF has always gotten natural-language processing wrong.
> Asimov, for example, assumed that robots would understand spoken English
> decades before they could speak it, when, in fact, computer-speech
> attachments were in IBM's regular catalog by the mid-60s, and voice
> recognition is still either restricted in function (Siri) or dependent
> on supercomputers (Watson).

Converting text to speech is a relatively minor task, since the computer
doesn't need to actually understand what is being said, only to follow a
set of rules. Understanding speech is much more complex, if you want to
do more than just recognize a few keywords.

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