Earliest Speech Recognition Breakthroughs

The first significant breakthrough was Bell Laboratories' 'Audrey' in 1952, capable of recognizing spoken digits, followed by IBM's 'Shoebox' in 1962, which understood 16 English words.

Sources

• The History of Speech Recognition - Transcribe
• A short history of speech recognition - Sonix
• Timeline of speech and voice recognition - Wikipedia
• The Past, Present, and Future of Speech-to-Text and AI Transcription | iMerit
• History of ASR Systems - ApX Machine Learning
• Nervous System: Audrey and the Dragon: The History of Voice Recognition Technology

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