Oh yeah, I agree that Google should be praised for taking research and producing useful applications. I am not disparaging Google in the least. I respect them

Oh yeah, I agree that Google should be praised for taking research and producing useful applications. I am not disparaging Google in the least. I respect them for bringing NLP to the masses. I meant to dispel the myth that Google invented speech recognition, or that it developed it. The reality is that it is as much of a developer as anyone else in the NLP community.