Voice computing has a rich history.<ref>Timeline{{Cite forweb |last=Boyd |first=Clark |date=2019-08-30 |title=Speech Recognition. Technology: The Past, Present, and Future |url=https://medium.com/swlh/the-past-present-and-future-of-speech-recognition-technology-cf13c179aaf |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=The Startup |language=en}}</ref> First, scientists like [[Wolfgang Kempelen]] started to build speech machines to produce the earliest synthetic speech sounds. This led to further work by Thomas Edison to record audio with [[dictation machines]] and play it back in corporate settings. In the 1950s-1960s there were primitive attempts to build automated [[speech recognition]] systems by [[Bell Labs]], [[IBM]], and others. However, it was not until the 1980s that [[Hidden Markov Models]] were used to recognize up to 1,000 words that speech recognition systems became relevant.
