From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: “Speech recognition systems have progressed to the point where humans can interact with computing devices by relying on speech. Suc h systems employ techniques to identify the words spoken by a human user based o n the various qualities of a received audio input. Speech recognition combined w ith natural language understanding processing techniques enable speech-based use r control of a computing device to perform tasks based on the user’s spoken comm ands. The combination of speech recognition and natural language understanding p rocessing techniques is referred to herein as speech processing. Speech processi ng may also involve converting a user’s speech into text data which may then be provided to various text-based software applications.
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