Which voice recognition innovation first allowed for continuous speech recognition with a large vocabulary without requiring pauses between words?

Voice recognition technology has transformed how we interact with products, from smartphones to smart speakers. But do you know which breakthrough innovation marked a turning point for this technology in consumer products? Test your knowledge about the evolution of language processing technology and how it shaped modern product design in the linguistics and language technology industry.

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IBM's Hidden Markov Model implementation in ViaVoice (1997)
Bell Labs' Audrey system (1952)
Dragon Systems' NaturallySpeaking discrete speech model (1990)
Apple's original Siri acquisition from SRI International (2010)