HAL 9000
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When astronaut Dave Bowman tries to go back to the mothership, HAL refuses to open the pod bay door with the calm and categorical “I am sorry Dave, I am afraid I can’t do that” famous line in one of the most dramatic scenes of the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey. Now, imagine HAL was actually built
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Building a computer that speaks with the same naturalness and intelligibility of humans is not a much easier task than building a computer that understand speech. In fact it took decades to reach the quality of modern speech synthesizer, and yet the superiority of real human voice is still unbeatable. Still today, whenever possible, automated spoken dialog systems on the phone
THE VOICE IN THE MACHINE 