By Chance Berman and Clark Baumgartner

1. Introduction 2. History 3. Modern Applications 4. Case Study 5. Ethical Analysis

 Voice recognition  Speech recognition - converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker.

 Voice Recognition software: ◦ began in the 1936 with ATT&T's Bell Labs. ◦ First company to launch a commercial product was Covox in ◦ Along with (or bundled) this introduction of sound to computers came Speech Recognition.

 Voice Recognition software: ◦ Dragon Systems.  Scansoft, Inc.  Accuracy levels have reached 95% and better with transcription speeds at over 160 words per minutes!!!

 Healthcare  Patients with disabilities  Deaf  RSI(Repetitive Strain Injury)  Military ◦ U.S. program -Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTIF)  F-35 and French Mirage aircraft.

 Xbox Kinect: ◦ Video/ audio input applications allow for user to play games and surf the web via voice command.  iPhone 4s: ◦ Siri- able of taking commands from user and outputting an aswer.  ASIMO: ◦ Robot made by Honda headquarters in Japan that is capable of working in a human environment.

F-35 Xbox Kinect Siri

 ER Department of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis – Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, QC.  Wireless speech recognition in the ER ◦ Challenge ◦ Solution

 Act Utilitarianism?  Social Contract Theory?

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