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From President Clinton’s State of the
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“These kinds of innovations are also
propelling our remarkable prosperity...
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Soon researchers will bring us devices
that can translate foreign
languages
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as fast as you can talk...
molecular computers the size of a tear drop with the
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power of today’s fastest supercomputers.”
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You converse with someone in a foreign
country and neither speaker
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speaks a common language (universal translator)
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You place a call to your bank to inquire
about your bank account and
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never have to remember a password (transparent telephony)
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Human Language Engineering: a sophisticated integration of many speech and
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language related technologies... a science for the next millennium.
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