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Audrey, Alexa, Hal, and More
Computer History Museum, n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- A museum article on the history of speech recognition from AUDREY in 1952 through later systems. It describes AUDREY as the Automatic Digit Recognizer and gives its accuracy and the limit that it worked only for its inventor.
- How much weight it carries
- Written by a major computing history museum, so it is a reliable overview. It is a popular summary without the technical paper, and it does not name AUDREY's inventors.
Facts taken from this source
- Bell Laboratories built AUDREY, its digit recognizer, in 1952.
“We start our story in 1952 at Bell Laboratories.” (Opening of the article, section on the first round)
- AUDREY recognized the digits zero to nine with 90 percent accuracy, but only when its inventor spoke.
“can recognize the digits zero to nine, with 90% accuracy, but only if spoken by its inventor.” (Opening of the article, section on the first round)