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History and importance of Voice Recognition

 At this week blog, I would like to write a bit about voice controllers. This technology may sound quite new, but even in the 20 th century, there were works regarding this topic. In 1952 Audrey created, that understood numbers spoken by specific people. Later IBM create a Shoebox machine, that understood 16 words, in English. In the 1980s the Hidden Markov Model [1] was altered the development of voice recognition on the software side. In the beginning, this kind of technology used template words, but with this technic, they could measure the probability of unknown sounds and words. Just like in everything, developments came in place, however even in the 2000s this technology quite expensive and wasn’t easy to implement. In 2008, hardware and software were developed enough to create a portable and easily usable speech recognition tool. 2008 was the year when Apple first implemented voice search into their Phone, which made Google innovate their own technology. It created space on