Speech recognition in 1968
Respect your elders - here's a video of the state of the art of speech recognition research at Stanford in 1968.
I thought it was a hoax at first, with the synth music and the board titles, the fuzzy waveforms, and somebody actually acting out "I scream" in contrast to a photo of "ice cream". Then a bearded bloke comes in and casually throws some French at the system! But the science is explained with a graphical demonstration of the cutting edge waveform segment mapping technology, and it gets kind of gripping, in a quaint sort of way. The application of a control interface to the famous block-moving robots in the Stanford AI labs (with the 30-40 second latency between command and action) tops it off.
This was a generation ago. We've come a long way since then, eh?
Right?
Haven't we?
(Thanks to awesom-o at the Artifical Intelligence and Robotics blog.)
