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but most speechrecognition techniques are transferable to other languages provided there is sufficient motivation to undertake the work.Within ten years we will have puters that respond to goaldirected conversations, but for a puter to have a conversation that takes into account human social behaviour is probably 50 years off. We’re not going to be chatting to the big screen in the living room just yet.There are those in the IT munity who believe that current techniques will eventually hit a brick wall. Personally, I believe that incremental developments in performance are more likely. But it’s true that by about 2040 or so, puter architectures will need to bee highly parallel if performance is to keep increasing. Perhaps that will inspire some radically new approaches to speech understanding that will supplant the methods we’re developing now.Passage 2The Atlantic Alliance Needs TendingThe . and Europe. These days, they bicker almost like a couple whose long marriage is in danger of unravelling. The