Automatic Speech Recognition - A Brief History of the Technology Development

Designing a machine that mimics human behavior, particularly the capability of speaking naturally and responding properly to spoken language, has intrigued engineers and scientists for centuries. Since the 1930s, when Homer Dudley of Bell Laboratories proposed a system model for speech analysis and synthesis [1, 2], the problem of automatic speech recognition has been approached progressively, from a simple machine that responds to a small set...