Voice computing has a rich history. <ref>Timeline for Speech Recognition. https://medium.com/swlh/the-past-present-and-future-of-speech-recognition-technology-cf13c179aaf</ref> First, scientists like [[Wolfgang Kempelen]] builtstarted theto acoustic-mechanicalbuild speech machinemachines 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.
