http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/07/29/dragon-founder-moves-to-new-job.aspxJim Baker, who along with wife Janet started Dragon Naturally Speaking ten years ago, is moving to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University to direct a new center focused on language technology used by the Defense Department. The goal of the project, nicelyen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/07/29/dragon-founder-moves-to-new-job.aspx#4122448Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:47:14 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4122448public<p>Actually &nbsp;languages are not that hard to learn. It's kind of like a puzzle, you may not know the big picture, but you know where the piece goes next to which piece. And by keeping doing it, pretty soon you'll have all the pieces in the right place, but still have no idea of the big picture. That's how I learn languages anyways...</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/07/29/dragon-founder-moves-to-new-job.aspx#4240395Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:55:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4240395sprague<p>That's right -- it's like a puzzle. &nbsp;But this puzzle is so huge that it's impossible to be completely solved without understanding the entire context of the culture. The only way to do that fully, I claim, is to live and be part of the culture.</p> <p>I speak English fairly well, but I can't follow a conversation between two doctors discussing some arcane medical situation. &nbsp;Computers will have the same problem understanding two teenagers discussing a relationship problem.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/07/29/dragon-founder-moves-to-new-job.aspx#4244683Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:57:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4244683.<p>Computers can learn it as well ;) It took Skynet only a few hours.</p>