From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:15:59 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote:   
      
   > Of course, SF has always gotten natural-language processing wrong.   
   > Asimov, for example, assumed that robots would understand spoken English   
   > decades before they could speak it, when, in fact, computer-speech   
   > attachments were in IBM's regular catalog by the mid-60s, and voice   
   > recognition is still either restricted in function (Siri) or dependent   
   > on supercomputers (Watson).   
      
   Converting text to speech is a relatively minor task, since the computer   
   doesn't need to actually understand what is being said, only to follow a   
   set of rules. Understanding speech is much more complex, if you want to   
   do more than just recognize a few keywords.   
      
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