The IBM Shoebox was a 1961
IBM computer that was able to perform mathematical functions and perform speech recognition. It recognized 16 spoken words, including the digits 0 through 9. It was developed by William C. Dersch in the Advanced Systems Development Division Laboratory at
IBM[
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History
It was displayed at the IBM Pavilion during the 1962 Seattle World's Fair
The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States.[Natural Language Processing
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, like the IBM Shoebox, has influenced development in fields such as speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the m ...
, including things like "voice dialing", "call routing", and "automated appliance control".
See also
* Speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the m ...
* List of IBM products
The following is a partial list of products, services, and subsidiaries of International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s.
This list is eclectic; it includes, for example, the ''AN/FS ...
References
External links
IBM Shoebox at the IBM archives
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Shoebox
Speech recognition software