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>But it's not completely unthinkable, Bell Labs did do very impressive things in text-to-speech at least. They did a lot more than that. https://en.wikipedia.

>But it's not completely unthinkable, Bell Labs did do very impressive things in text-to-speech at least. They did a lot more than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs From the first paragraph at the above page (just for starters): >As a former subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), Bell Labs and its researchers have been credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others, throughout the 20th century. Eleven Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.[1] Also see the section titled Discoveries and developments.

oersted 1y ago
Well yes of course, I just meant that them having voice transcription AI even in the 60s is not that unlikely, since they did a lot specifically in speech synthesis and audio analysis, besides everything else. I don't think they had it, but they had some of the important prerequisites figured out. I guess it makes sense, voice-related AI is highly relevant for a phone company. EDIT: Not full voice transcription, but it turns out that they did have systems to recognise digits and small (~a dozen) vocabularies of command words. The prototype called Audrey could recognise 0-9 spoken digits with 97% accuracy in 1952! Although it did have to be calibrated for each individual speaker.