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1952year
Bell Laboratories built AUDREY, its digit recognizer, in 1952.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We start our story in 1952 at Bell Laboratories.”
Audrey, Alexa, Hal, and More, Computer History Museum, n.d., Opening of the article, section on the first round.
Open the original- What it measures
- The museum uses AUDREY as the starting point for its history of speech recognition.
- What it does not show
- The museum does not name AUDREY's inventors, and it does not give the technical paper.